Mr Justice Darling, “Judicial Lightweight”, by Spy
This blog is written about an English judge who died, aged 87, a month before I was born, and inhabited a totally different age. Continue reading “Mr Justice Darling: “an impudent little man in horsehair””
Yesterday Lord Bach’s Commission held a two-hour session with five people (two of them lawyers) who told us from first-hand experience about what has been happening (or not happening) since the disastrous fire at Grenfell Tower two months ago. Continue reading “The North Kensington Law Centre and Grenfell Tower”
This is a picture of Sir Charles Swinfen Eady, a Chancery judge who was Master of the Rolls for one year, between 1918 and 1919. Continue reading “Mourning Bands and Weepers”
Yet again I am indebted to my Canadian friend John deP. Wright for this interesting snippet of English legal history. Continue reading “The junior barrister’s gown”
Henry Brooke 