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NLJ this week: Great orators of the Bar: Thomas Erskine

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18 April 2025
Issue: 8113 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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He was known as ‘Baron Ego of Eye’, and also as ‘the greatest ever exponent of the art of persuasion when addressing judges and juries’. Writing in this week’s NLJ, David Walbank KC, Red Lion Chambers, pays tribute to Thomas Erskine, a barrister of extraordinary eloquence.

In and out of court, his audacity and ability to compel elevated him to a pivotal place in legal history. Erskine is the first subject in a series of pieces by Walbank on the most famous barristers in English legal history, their trials, careers and lives. 

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