ABSTRACT
René moved speedily from St Mary's to enrolment in the University of London to study law. René was to complete his law degree as rapidly as he had his matriculation. Mancham the anglophile appears to have been much more comfortable in London legal circles, spent several years in them and was to recall them with relish. Certainly, he was to find it impossible to gain entrance to a practice even when he later returned to London with experience at the Seychelles Bar. Progression through the Inns of Court was the path by which a lawyer could be called to the Bar and was the only means in England by which a law student or graduate could do so. The contrast with his nemesis Mancham is considerable in this regard. René left London to return to Seychelles at roughly the time Mancham was arriving. Mancham was himself called to the Bar from Middle Temple in 1961.
