Sat They With Symposium Honorariums. By Uncle Monty.

Sat They With Symposium Honorariums
By Uncle Monty

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Courteous clapping greeted them as they
sat down with their symposium honorariums
to speak to the provocative question of “Law
& Society: Which is to be Master?” at The
2008 Temple Festival, which was generously
sponsored by The Alexander S. Onassis
Foundation.
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There they sat from left to right: The Rt. Hon.
Lord Justice Rix, The Most Rev’d and Rt. Hon.
Lord Eames, Anna Ford (chairperson),
Professor A. C. Grayling, and Professor
Mona Siddiqui.
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As for myself, I was there among several hundreds
of other public members who eagerly wanted to hear
the presented question answered by such eminent

people in their own field of expertise and knowledge.
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1. Sir Bernard Rix was a Kennedy Scholar at

Harvard Law School before he was called to the

Bar by The Inner Temple Inn some 18 years ago.

He was appointed QC in 1981 and later served

as a Recorder of the Crown Court. And since
2000, he has served as a Lord Justice of

the Royal Court of Appeals.
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2. Lord Robin Eames is the Anglican
Archbishop-Emeritus of Armagh and
Primate of All Ireland. Last year, he was
conferred with The Order of Merit (O.M).
A well-known primate among the worldwide
Anglican Communion, His Grace was Chairman
of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission
on Communion and Women in the Episcopate
and Chairman of the Inter-Anglican
Theological and Doctrinal Commission.
In 1975, at only age 38, Lord Eames was
appointed bishop of the cross-border
Anglican Diocese of Derry and Raphoe
of Ireland.
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3. Anna Ford has been a British broadcast
journalist for more than 30 years. She was the
first woman presenter of ITN’s News at Ten.
For seven years she also presented the BBC
One O’Clock News. She regularly presents
the Today programme and Woman’s Hour on
BBC Radio 4. Anna is an Honorary Bencher of
The Middle Temple Inn. In 2001, she became
the first woman to be installed as Chancellor
of the University of Manchester at where she
first earned her B.A. in Economics with Honours
as an undegradate student. Presently, Anna is
also a non-executive director of Sainsburys
and a trustee of Forum for the Future.
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4. Dr. Anthony Grayling is Professor of Philosophy
at London University’s Birkbeck College and
a Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne’s College,
Oxford. As a columnist, he wrote the Last Word
for several years for The Guardian. Prof.
Grayling is a regular reviewer for The Literary
Review and the Financial Times. In 2003,
he was a Booker Prize judge.
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5. Professor Mona Siddiqui holds the professorship
of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at
the University of Glasgow. She has published
widely on Islamic Law, The Qur’an, and Christian-
Muslim relations of which she has worked closely
with Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury
on the issue of Anglicanism and Islam. Prof.
Siddiqui, who contributes frequently to The
Scotsman and the English Roman Catholic Tablet,
is presently the Jantina Tammes Visiting Professor
at the University of Groningen in the Netherland.
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These then were the five eminent ones who
rightly were greeted with courteous clapping as
they sat with their symposium honorariums at
The 2008 Temple Festival that is celebrating
400 Years of the Inns of Law. For further
info, visit http://www.temple2008.org/
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While what they had to say about Law and
Religion was worthy of note, I was more in-
terested in first meeting them by introducing
myself and requesting they authograph my
copy of the programme; my chance to spend
time chatting with each of them, which I did,
and asking them my own questions, and above
all to make a photographic portrait of each of
them individually (as seen above), which I did
despite the strict ban imposed on taking
photographs at the Temple Symposiums. I was,
therefore, delighted that each of them responded
so delightfully to my requests of not only to have
their autographs and to take their photographs,
but to chat so openly with me with perhaps His
Grace, Lord Robin Eames and His Worship, Sir
Bernard Rix, being the most open and friendly
toward me, personally.
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I shall next attend the last of the Temple Symposiums
on December 8th at Kings College on the question of
“Law And International Relations,” where I hope to
then encounter General Sir Mike Jackson, former
Army Chief of the British General Staff; Sir Malcolm
Rifkind, former British Foreign Secretary;
Judge Dame Rosalyn Higgins, who is President
of the International Court of Justice; Sir Konrad
Schiemann, Judge of the European Court of Justice,
and Prof. Sir Basil Markesinis, who is Professor of
Common and Civil Law at London’s University College
and Jamail Regents Professor at the University of
Texas at Austin. It is my intention to meet and record
them much like I did yesterday with those other
eminent persons who sat with their symposium
honorariums at the second series of the five-part
symposia at The 2008 Temple Festival.
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Truly, Uncle Monty.
+St. Magnus, 2oo8
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a mere and insignificant street vendor, nothing
more to them. And so again, that’s that … Ah,
when John Bird said he’d personally contact me
last September, I’ve heard not a further word
from him since I last saw him at his Mayoral
Campaign event with my lovely friend Jill Fer-
guson. Since then, I've been inside Iran, visited
Istanbul, and returned from Albania just 10 days
ago, while he’s been off to India and what have
you. So John and I have not encountered each
other since last mid-year of 2oo7. And so yet
again, that’s that … Take care, Uncle Monty.
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