Howard Brown (Halifax Bank) sing in that particular advert as it was performed by Matt Thornfield and Brown only appeared in cartoon form. In 2004, the Bank Of Scotland dropped Brown from their versions of the adverts, as the style of the adverts was not well received by its customers. In 2005, he released a cover of the Barry White song "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" as a charity single. It peaked at number 13 in the UK Singles Chart. From April 2008, Brown no longer starred in the Halifax adverts, instead taking a role in its public relations department. In 2011,
Ralph S. Brown I will not take time to defend it. It does require judges to be deaf to complaints that "It isn't fair." Brown followed this up with an admonition to the bar: "Do not be greedy; do not try to pile one on top of the other. . . . I think it's unholy, if not unconstitutional, to carve up the public domain." Ralph S. Brown Ralph Sharp Brown (1913–1998) was a professor of intellectual property from 1946 to 1983 at the Yale Law School, and after his 1983 retirement to emeritus status he taught at New York Law School until