Oliver Twist was Dickens’s second novel. Continue reading “Charles Dickens and the Law: (3) Oliver Twist and the New Poor Law”
Month: December 2015
Charles Dickens and the Law: (2) David Copperfield and Doctors’ Commons
In Chapter 23 of David Copperfield Charles Dickens describes how David’s great-aunt Betsey Trotwood paid £1,000 for him to be articled to Messrs Spenlow and Jorkins, Continue reading “Charles Dickens and the Law: (2) David Copperfield and Doctors’ Commons”
Charles Dickens and the law: (1) Little Dorrit and the use of prison in debt recovery
One of the pleasures of retirement is the opportunity to read long books without the risk that one will have forgotten the beginning long before reaching the end. Continue reading “Charles Dickens and the law: (1) Little Dorrit and the use of prison in debt recovery”
The role of Mediation in Planning and Environmental Disputes
I am conscious that I have not yet published anything on this site about mediation or about town and country planning. Continue reading “The role of Mediation in Planning and Environmental Disputes”
A Visit to Canada: Canadian Judicial Education in 1993
In view of the interest being shown in Canada in some of my blogs, Continue reading “A Visit to Canada: Canadian Judicial Education in 1993”
Place Money and the Circuits
I have been asked by Andrew Keogh (aka CrimeLineLaw) to explain what I meant in yesterday’s blog Continue reading “Place Money and the Circuits”
Law and Practice in the 1960s: (4) Crime (including driving offences)
When I started to practise at the Bar in 1964, formal advocacy training was unheard of. Continue reading “Law and Practice in the 1960s: (4) Crime (including driving offences)”
The Law Commission’s Family Homes and Domestic Violence Bill in 1995
This is my introductory address to a Special Public Bills Committee of the House of Lords – a so-called Jellicoe Committee. Continue reading “The Law Commission’s Family Homes and Domestic Violence Bill in 1995”
Law and practice in the 1960s: (3) Family Law (1964-1977)
When I started to practise at the Bar in 1964, there was no such thing as family law. Continue reading “Law and practice in the 1960s: (3) Family Law (1964-1977)”
Henry Brooke 
