‘Lady Chatterley’ lawyer Jeremy Hutchinson dies at 102
LONDON — Lawyer Jeremy Hutchinson, a towering legal figure who helped liberalize British laws around sex and freedom of expression, has died. He was 102.
Hutchinson’s former law firm, Three Raymond Buildings, said Tuesday that he died a day earlier. No cause of death was given.
In 1960 he was part of the team that successfully defended Penguin Books against obscenity charges for publishing D.H. Lawrence’s novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”
The book was first published in Italy in 1928, but was banned in its full uncensored form in Britain until Penguin published it in 1960.