Lawyers & Judges, Legal Profession, Michael Kerr, English biographies, autobiographies, English autobiographies 

"This autobiography of Sir Michael Kerr chronicles the life of one of Britain's most prominent judges of the 70s and 80s from his Continental childhood up to his career in the Court of Appeal and beyond." "In the first part of his memoir, the author traces his family history and Germanic roots. His father, Alfred Kerr, was a well-known dramatic critic and essayist, whose writings were widely known throughout Germany from the turn of the century and have recently seen a resurrection, 50 years after his death, as related in the last chapter of the book. But because of the fame of his anti-Nazi writings and broadcasts, the Kerrs were forced to flee from Berlin as early as 3 March 1933, when Hitler came to power. The author and his sister Judith, later to become a famous author of children's books, had a relatively happy cosmopolitan childhood in Zurich, Paris, Nice and ultimately England. But their parents' lives remained on the edge of poverty and sometimes despair and there was never again a family home."--Jacket. 

Contents:
The beginning
My father and his family
My grandparents
My mother
My father's work
My parents together
My sister
The early years
The twenties
Clouds
Flight
Switzerland
An interlude - "fast forward"
To France
Paris-the beginning
Lycee Michelet
The Fizaines (and others)
Paris - the second year
To Nice
Our parents in London
The end of the Lycee de Nice
The promised land
Aldenham
The first year
1937
1938-1939
The final end of Nice
The phoney war - Cambridge
The real war starts
Internment
Reactions
The Isle of Man
Release
Another interlude - "fast forward"
The Blitz- back to Aldenham - the RAF
Air crew cadet
Wings
Learning instructor back in Cambridge
Twin engines
Joining a Wellington crew
612 Squadron
The war in Europe ends
Demobilization
Post-war Cambridge
1946
1947
Michele
Going to the bar
My mother leaves
My father's death
A postscript
Beginnings at the bar
Marriage, etc
My mother in Germany
A painful family reunion
My mother's death
End of a generation
The second half
The junior bar
Silk
Some highlights
Towards the end of the Bar
The bench?
Life as a Judge
Separation
The law commission
Diana
The court of Appeal
Disappointments
A new profession
A resurrection
Epilogue
Annexe - The Macao Sardine case