John Mortimer Biography

Birth of John Mortimer

Defends publishers John Calder and Marion Boyars in their appeal against their conviction for publishing Hubert Selby, Jr.s Last Exit to Brooklyn

Screenwrites Bermondsey

Unsuccesfully defends Richard Handyside, English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook. Counsel at the Oz "conspiracy"

Mortimer creates Rumpole for Rumpole of the Bailey, a 1975 contribution to the BBCs Play For Today anthology series

Mortimer creates Rumpole for Rumpole of the Bailey, a 1975 contribution to the BBCs Play For Today anthology series

Defends Gay News editor Denis Lemon (Whitehouse v. Lemon) for the publication of James Kirkups "The Love that Dares to Speak its Name" against charges of Blasphemous libel

Successfully defends Virgin Records in the 1977 obscenity hearing for their use of the word bollocks in the title of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks

Successfully defends Virgin Records in the 1977 obscenity hearing for their use of the word bollocks in the title of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks

Successfully defends Virgin Records in the obscenity case over the album title Never Mind the Bollocks.

Mortimer is credited with the adaptation of Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited for Granada Television

Mortimer adapts John Fowles The Ebony Tower, starring Laurence Olivier for Granada

Mortimers description of what he saw as Britains descent into the viciousness of Thatcherism - Paradise Postponed - is televised

Screenwrites Tea With Mussolini

Death of John Mortimer