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Mr robertson grew up in the sydney suburb of eastwood. Geoffrey robertson qc is a figure who loomed large in my consciousness, when i was a schoolboy in the 80s and early 90s. He then attended the university of sydney where he graduated with a bachelor of arts in 1966 and a bachelor of laws with firstclass honours in 1970, before winning a rhodes scholarship to study at the university of oxford, where he graduated with a. Its cast of characters includes princess diana, peewee herman, dame edna, the queen and rupert the bear and the media mogul. His hypotheticals captured my interest and led friends and family to suggest to me that i, too, should become a barrister one day as i have now done. The comprehensive, brilliantly told, gloriously candid autobiography from australias inimitable geoffrey robertson. That would hardly comes as a surprise to those that have seen his hypotheticals tv show or read the justice game robertson is an extraordinarily gifted man who has.
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