One of the most colourful and engaging characters in the legal world is former Supreme Court judge Howard Nathan, a man I have affectionately called for many years “Uncle”.

He is a fellow with hundreds of anecdotes, many of them so salacious they are unpublishable. If he wrote his memoirs it would be delivered in a brown paper bag and the subsequent litigation would allow a score of libel lawyers to holiday their winters in Monaco.

Little did I know that for 50 years he has kept one story in his back pocket – a political scandal of Machiavellian proportions.

A while ago he contacted me to get it off his chest, saying it needed to be aired before “I drop off this mortal coil”.

While his stellar reputation as a barrister, then for 14 years as a judge, is well known, he had a second caree

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