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Anon. 07:15. The young Barrister in Henry Cecil's book , Brothers in Law, was named Roger Thursby (not Thurleby) and indeed, the author,Henry Cecil, was a Judge - no other than His Hon. Judge Henry Cecil Leon who sat in Willesden County Court (he was not a High Court Judge) when it was located in Craven Road, Willesden, and as it was my local County court (I was then, in the 1960s with a firm of Solicitors in Ealing Road, Wembley 'just down the road') so I experienced His Hon. Judge Leon often. Far too often really as he was (almost) obnoxious. If you have ever read any of his books you will know that he loved Barristers but was not enamoured with Solicitors, often (in his books) depicting them as habitually inebriated, not particularly honest and certainly devious! This trait rubbed off to those in front of him in Court. Woe betide the Solicitor who had a Barrister as his opposite number (I say 'his' as I'm talking about the 1960s and during that period I never came across a female solicitor!). I was once (and only once I am glad to say) absolutely roasted by him - not a nice experience! He retired in 1967 (if I remember correctly - I think I do because of the the street parties held around Willesden and Harlesden in celebration!!). The only other Judge I came before, who was a close contender in the rudeness stakes, was His Honour Judge Claude Duvene the scourge of the Slough County Court! I once made an Application before him for a postponement of a trial hearing date. I still have nightmares about it!