Legal London : a pictorial history

Type

Book

Authors

Herber, Mark

ISBN 10

1860775071

ISBN 13

9781860775079

Tags

England, Foreign & International Law, London, United Kingdom, Pictorial Works, UK crime and punishment, Temple bar, Inns of court, Prisoners, Prison, Parliament, Royal courts, Police

Abstract

"London has been home to more lawyers, for more centuries, than any other city on earth. Paris ran it neck-and-neck until 18th century, after which London romped away as the national and then imperial capital of a legal system with centralized Royal Courts of Justice, Inns of Court, Courts of Appeal, debtors prison's, the Old Bailey, the Archbishop's Court at St Mary le Bow, the Bridewell, the notorious Fleet Prison, and the Metropolitan Police. No other city so celebrates, in surviving buildings and institutions, the work of judges, lawyers, litigants, criminals and the police! The new books does justice to them all..." - Cover

Description

Contents:
List of illustrations
Foreword by Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Tower of London; fortress, prison and place of execution
The mother of parliaments
The royal courts at Westminster and on the Strand
The other Courts of London
Crime and punishment
The London police
Temple bar and the Inns of Court
Serjeants' Inn and the Inns of Chancery
Some other scenes from Chancery Lane and Fleet street
The lawyers
The lawyers' churches
The prisons of London
Punishments in prison
Law reports and legal ephemera
Bibliography
Index

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