He has sometimes been cited wrongly as one of the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial defence team.His biographer Valerie Grove dismisses this in tribute article . He did, however, successfully defend publishers John Calder and Marion Boyars in a 1968 appeal against a conviction for publishing Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. He assumed a similar role three years later, this time unsuccessfully, for Richard Handyside, the English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook.
He has sometimes been cited wrongly as one of the Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial defence teamHis biographer Valerie Grove dismisses this in tribute article  He did however successfully defend publishers John Calder and Marion Boyars in a 1968 appeal against a conviction for publishing Hubert Selby Jr's Last Exit to Brooklyn He assumed a similar role three years later this time unsuccessfully for Richard Handyside the English publisher of The Little Red Schoolbook