A series of portraits of outstanding members of the English Bar by Lord Birkett
2: Sir Patrick Hastings , K.C.
1880-1952
' Pat ' Hastings and Norman Birkett were friends and rivals. There was a time in the thirties when they were , almost daily opponents practising before juries in the civil casrts.Different in temperament, tastes, and methods, they shared one thing in common-the risk they both had taken in going to the Bar with no other resources than the ability which brought them to the top of a highly competitive profession.
Production by Joe Burroughs