The writer John Mortimer said Hutchinson was one of the inspirations for his character Rumpole of the Bailey, a loquacious, wine-loving defense barrister.
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Mortimer wrote that although he wanted to create this kind of shabby old dinosaur of the London criminal bar, it was not until he heard the particular plaint of an older colleague that he knew he had found that all-important voice, from which all else would flow.
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