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” →