Accession Code: wu0307 Title: Study for the portrait of Lord Scarman Date completed: 1989 Medium: Painting Material: Oil Height (mm): 495 Width (mm): 395 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed and dated:Tom Phillips, lower right. Inscribed: "I had rather record a thousand errors inspired by humanity than one dictated by a justice too severe" Location Name: Scarman House Location Description: Coffee Lounge Location Floor: 0

The Portrait of Lord Scarman, currently hanging in Senate House, was commissioned to commemorate the Chancellorship of Lord Scarman from 1977-89. Lord Scarman was a judge and Lord Appeal from 1977-86, and author of The Scarman Report, The Brixton Disorders 10-12 April 1981. In the background of both the study and the final painting is a portrait of Mark Douglas, the Rastafarian who ran the restaurant in South London where Tom Phillips and Lord Scarman lunched during sittings.