The Law Society
Gazette [UK]
21 October 2013
By James Morton
I was sad to read
of the death this month at the age of 91 of Robert Flach, who until he retired
in 2011, must have been the longest-practising and oldest barrister. […]
One Old Bailey
day, he and Rees-Davies were defending together when Flach looked up at a
female juror about to be sworn and said, ‘My God, Billy, what am I going to do?
I’ve been to bed with her.’ Billy said: ‘Don’t worry. I’ll do it for you. So
have I.’ Billy put it most tactfully, if not wholly flatteringly: ‘My Lord, my
learned friend and I feel we have met this lady socially at some time. We can’t
exactly recall the circumstances but perhaps it would be better if she stood
down.’