Michael Mansfield QC: ‘The Johnny Depp Of The Legal World’
Alex Aldridge
“Radical; vegetarian; socialist. These three words are rarely used in conjunction with lawyers, but these are the three that encapsulate Michael Mansfield QC,” begins last week’s Oxford University student newspaper profile of well-known human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield (pictured left).
“In a mystifying world, brim-full of traditions, wigs, and lots of Latin,” it continues, “you can imagine the excitement I felt when I was told that I would be having dinner with a Queen’s Counsel. And not just any QC, but the Johnny Depp (pictured right) of the legal world.”
Michael Mansfield: the Johnny Depp of the legal world? Really?
For sufferers of Oxbridge inferiority complexes who are in need of a confidence boost, the full Oxford Student profile interview of Captain Jack Mansfield is available here.
Next week: Oxford Student visits the Santa Monica beachside home of law’s Pamela Anderson, Dominic Grieve.
