[citation needed] Instead of continuing at the LSE, he applied to read jurisprudence at Magdalen College, Oxford, after the war, gaining a second-class degree in 1947 and then the Bachelor of Civil Law in 1948.
He joined the chambers of Cyril Radcliffe at 3 New Square, as a pupil of John Sparrow (later Warden of All Souls College, Oxford).
[citation needed] He practised as a Chancery barrister, dealing with tax, trusts, wills and real estate.
[citation needed] He was appointed as a High Court judge in 1975, receiving the customary knighthood and becoming a Bencher at Lincoln's Inn.
In 1984, he upheld the appeal by Victoria Gillick, that children should not be given contraceptives without their parents' consent, except in an emergency or with the permission of the court, [1985] 1 All ER 533.
Also in 1984, he granted an injunction to stop The Daily Mirror from publishing information from bugged telephone conversations of National Hunt jockey John Francome, [1984] 2 All ER 408.
In 1988, he ruled that Doreen Hill, mother of Jacqueline Hill, the last murder victim of the "Yorkshire Ripper", Peter Sutcliffe, was not entitled to damages from West Yorkshire police, on the grounds that the police did not owe a duty of care to the victims of criminals that they failed to catch, even if they were negligent, [1987] 1 All ER 1173.