Radio 4 began a new series, Voices from the Old Bailey, highlighting interesting 18th century cases from the historic London court this week.
The first of the four-part series focused on ordinary Londoners caught up in riots, including a 1780 backlash against legislation giving greater rights to Catholics, and a more unusual 1749 riot in which a group of sailors destroyed a brothel and turned naked women onto the street after two of the sailors were robbed.
Government says 10% hike is justified because costs incurred by HM Courts & Tribunals Service to facilitate access to justice have gone up.
A paradigm shift is under way whereby human rights laws which are binding on business will increasingly become the norm, says former ECtHR president Robert Spano. The consequences for lawyers will be profound.
Three women who have reached the peak of their jurisdiction’s judiciary talk to Catherine Baksi about the challenges they have faced.
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