A Child's Voice

Minette is a mouse in The Royal Courts of Justice whose forebears remember seeing Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century attending at Court One. Minette watches, sees, hears and relates all that goes on in the family courts, with the awful tragedies of people’s lives and issues, especially affecting children. Minette is downcast by the accumulation of people’s problems often caused by themselves and indeed with the behaviours of some of Her Majesty’s Judges, but she has camaraderie with the other mice in the Royal Courts of Justice, as well as the mice at the Old Bailey and the mice of the Supreme Court, where they especially gather for receptions with many leftovers scattered on the carpets, taking, as they do, the number 19 bus along The Strand. But not all is sad, for Minette knows that some of Her Majesty’s Judges are, nevertheless, aware and kindly regarding the very serious responsibilities that they own.

Jeremy Rose was educated at the Liverpool College, the London School of Economics, the Asser Institute of International Law, the University of Nice, the General Council of the Bar, the City Literature and the Lincoln Centre for Psychotherapy. Jeremy Rose sat on the Bar Race Relations Committee for five years and the London Lottery Charity Board for five years. He is the winner of a Guggenheim Travel Scholarship and a Netherlands Cultural Scholarship. He is the author and co-author of four legal books referable to International Child Law and also the author of Rookie the Rucksack, A Dog’s Divorce, A Child’s Voice and Children of Hampstead, published by Austin Macauley. Jeremy Rose is married to Ian Blatchford, the Director of the Science Museum.