.... If they do, they will find themselves in trouble. The most spectacular case was one that was not reported in the Law Reports. Its reports of legal decisions were unique. No other newspaper in the world had anything like it. They were written by barristers and were quoted in the courts. But on that occasion...

...There is a paucity of empirical research on solicitors, court clerks, magistrates, barristers and judges conducted within the criminal justice system in England and Wales. Even though the research conducted for this chapter is now several years old, it is included and retained because...

... Greyhound Racing Club, and the British Boxing Board of Control, are governed by contractual arrangements. barristers discipline jurisdiction leading disciplinary cases legal framework powers procedure registration retrospection territorial jurisdiction A. Legal Framework 49.01 B. Leading...

... (head of the judiciary), Henri-Francois d’Aguesseau. On the other side was ranged the Parisian Order of Barristers, five hundred men of predominantly moderate means, predominantly bourgeois origins, and little obvious political influence. Aguesseau ranged Parisian Barristers strike This content...

... barristers came from east European Jewish families, and the chapter explains why this was the case. In England, between the world wars, the legal professions were ‘the exclusive spheres of the aristocracy and plutocracy’. There was a reluctance among solicitors and their clients to entrust their private...

... Cluer. Although an able judge, Cluer possessed many foibles and prejudices, and the chapter assesses whether Jewish litigants had their cases fairly tried and whether they were adequately represented by the Jewish barristers who regularly appeared there. It also considers the small minority of Jewish...

.... Barristers with German accents felt unwelcome, so that few refugees tried to make a career at the English Bar. Refugees could not become solicitors unless they were naturalized, something that was difficult to achieve during the war, and only a small number qualified as solicitors after the war...

...This chapter discusses Jewish barristers from 1945 to 1990. Partly because the provisions of the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 were starting to take effect, and partly because of the post-war upsurge in crime, there was a marked expansion in work for barristers in the late 1950s at much higher...

... was exceptionally able. Starting in 1968, during the last years of Harold Wilson's Labour administration, Lord Chancellor Gerald Gardiner began to appoint Jewish barristers from middle-class backgrounds and of east European family origin to the High Court bench. These men had for the most part been educated...

...This chapter characterizes the barristers in early modern England. It examines the social, geographical, and educational composition of the early modern bar and provides insights into the marital histories of two groups of lawyers in order to cast further light on the role of the barrister's wife...

...This chapter examines the religious commitment of barristers and common lawyers in early modern England. Many historians have noted links between common lawyers and radical Protestants, including their shared hostility towards ecclesiastical courts, the influence of puritan preachers at the Inns...

...This chapter examines the role of barristers and common lawyers in the government and politics of early modern England. During the early 1600s, it was claimed that the excessive numbers of lawyers helped precipitate a national collapse of social harmony in the form of civil war. Some historians...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the barristers and the Inns of Court in England during the period from 1860 to 1730. This book shows how the relationship between the Inns of Court and the English bar was transformed during these years and explains how...

...This chapter examines the quality and quantity of barristers admitted to the Inns of Court in England between 1680 and 1730. It suggests that as part of an effort to improve their finances, senior benchers watered down the qualifications their predecessors had demanded for admission to the bar...

...This chapter examines the pattern of preferment of barristers in England during the period from 1860 to 1730. It suggests that the pattern of preferment within the legal profession shifted during this period, with the new structure becoming fully established in the course of the 18th century...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the condition and development of barristers and the Inns of Court in England during the period from 1860 to 1730. During the later part of the 17th century, the Inns of Court suffered a period of decline as a consequence...

... be paid to the disincentives for those who do not apply. Additionally, the work of the Association of Women Barristers (to whom this chapter was originally addressed) can take significant strides in promoting more women for the Bench. But so much for the present and the past. Let us think of the future...

...This chapter discusses the basis of instructing barristers in Crown Court cases. The findings reveal that with some exceptions the structural disengagement of solicitors from the preparation of the defence case which was a central feature of magistrates' court work is even more marked for Crown...

...This chapter takes a look at the barristers. Becoming a barrister was always something of a gamble: only a minority achieved even a modicum of professional success, and many quit the profession in disgust while relatively young men. The position worsened in the years after the Napoleonic Wars when...

...This book analyses English barristers and the Inns of Court in the period 1680–1730. The four Inns of Court have constituted the principal institutional home of common lawyers since medieval times, and by the early modern period were regarded as a ‘third university’. Barristers were the pre-eminent...