In my recent blog about the Brides in the Bath affair I described how the fee available to counsel in 1913 under the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903 was £3.5.6d. Continue reading “The Poor Prisoners Defence Acts 1903 and 1930”
In my recent blog about the Brides in the Bath affair I described how the fee available to counsel in 1913 under the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903 was £3.5.6d. Continue reading “The Poor Prisoners Defence Acts 1903 and 1930”
Introduction
When I was writing the introduction to the History of Legal Aid, I wondered what fee was paid to counsel assigned to a defendant under the Poor Prisoners Defence Act 1903. Continue reading “The Brides in the Bath”
The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. Continue reading “My 80th birthday”
I wrote this article for an Exeter University law journal at the end of 1991 over the Christmas break. Continue reading “Holiday musings of a High Court Judge 25 years ago”
I have just retired from the Board of Trustees of the Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund [PoC]. Continue reading “The Prisoners of Conscience Appeal Fund”
Peter Rawlinson (Lord Rawlinson of Ewell QC) was in his time Solicitor-General, Continue reading “Peter Rawlinson’s memoirs: (1) two bulwarks for the protection of justice”
I see that in the 1993 talk I included in my last blog I said something about the storm that hit my father (and namesake) Continue reading “My father’s speech in December 1964 in the death penalty debate”
When the list of new Queen’s Counsel was announced this week, Continue reading “Honorary Queen’s Counsel”
Just after Christmas[1] we were reminded of the old rhyme: Continue reading “Charles Dickens and the Law: (4) Bleak House and the Court of Chancery”
Oliver Twist was Dickens’s second novel. Continue reading “Charles Dickens and the Law: (3) Oliver Twist and the New Poor Law”