Category: History - American
Leaving the busy Strand at Temple Bar and entering the Law Courts Building, one plunges into that teeming hive where the disputes of millions of British subjects are settled by law. Here the whole kingdom begins and ends its legal battles--except the cases on circuit, those mi...
Amongst the murder trials on the "Calendar of Prisoners" appeared "No 38; Madar Lal Dhingra, 25, Student, wilful murder of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Cowas Lalcaca."...
15. CHAPTER XVIt is the office of the courts to administer written laws enacted from time to time in response to the popular mood. They also--and it is the more important function--discover a...
2. CHAPTER IICLASSES FROM WHICH BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS ARE DRAWN--THE INNS OF COURT--INNS OF CHANCERY-- STUDENTS AT PERIOD OF REVOLUTION--A BARRISTER'S CHAMBERS--TRAINING OF BARRISTERS IN...
8. CHAPTER VIIIPrior to 1873 there were a large number of courts with various titles, which had grown up through centuries of custom and legislation. But they were nearly all abolished by an A...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe discipline of the Bar--the maintenance of correct standards of professional conduct--is everywhere a difficult problem. In England, with the experience of centuries, good re...
12. CHAPTER XIIAt the corner of Newgate and Old Bailey streets, near Fleet street and not far from Ludgate Hill, stands a modern building, officially known as the Central Criminal Court, but p...
3. CHAPTER IIIHaving been called to the Bar, the question first confronting the young barrister is whether he really intends to practice. He may have read law as an education, meaning to devo...
9. CHAPTER IXThe Court of Appeal--the last resort except for occasional cases which reach the House of Lords and Colonial appeals which go to the Privy Council--is, perhaps, the most perfect...
4. CHAPTER IVBAR DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS--NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PRACTICE--LEADERS--"TAKING HIS SEAT" IN A PARTICULAR COURT--"GOING SPECIAL" --LIST OF SPECIALS AND LEADERS-...
6. CHAPTER VIINFLUENTIAL FRIENDS OF BARRISTER--JUNIOR'S AND LEADER'S BRIEF FEES--FEES OF COMMON LAW AND CHANCERY BARRISTERS--BARRISTER PARTNERSHIPS NOT ALLOWED--ENGLISH LITIGATION LESS IMPOR...
14. CHAPTER XIVAs has been said, solicitors are to be found in every town in England, whereas barristers, with minor exceptions to be noted, all hail from the London Inns of Court. People livi...
5. CHAPTER VLINE WHICH SEPARATES THEM FROM THE BAR--SOLICITOR A BUSINESS MAN--FAMILY SOLICITORS--GREAT CITY FIRMS OF SOLICITORS--THE NUMBER OF SOLICITORS IN ENGLAND AND WALES--TENDENCY TOWA...
1. CHAPTER ILeaving the busy Strand at Temple Bar and entering the Law Courts Building, one plunges into that teeming hive where the disputes of millions of British subjects are settled by...
10. CHAPTER XThe numerous motions and interlocutory applications, supported by affidavits and urged by argument, which consume so much of the time of an American court, are disposed of in En...
11. CHAPTER XIUpon arrest, a preliminary hearing is first held at a police station where, as in most English proceedings, the testimony, with anything the prisoner may say (after he has been...