December 2020
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Judges Accompanied to Assizes by Armed Convoys, 1920-21
From the Belfast News-Letter, 2 July 1920: “WELL GUARDED JUDGES AT SUMMER ASSIZES Practically all the judges going out on circuit in the Irish Summer Assizes yesterday travelled by motor car, in view of the possibility that they would be… Continue reading
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Breach of Promise Proceedings by Smitten Solicitor’s Clerk, 1892
From the Freeman’s Journal, 9 January 1892: “A DUBLIN BREACH OF PROMISE CASE Yesterday Master Pigott sat in the Master’s office to hear a case of Lee v Doyle. The defendant, describing himself as Richard Lee, solicitor’s assistant, 17 Walton… Continue reading
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Slanging it Out: The Vernacular in the Courtroom, 1872-1942
From the Belfast News-Letter, 5 March 1930: “The use of the letters ‘BL’ after the name of a barrister-at-law was condemned by the Lord Chief Justice (the right Hon William Moore) in the King’s Bench division of the Northern Law… Continue reading
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Popular Killarney Solicitor Disappears after Derby Win, Turns Up Decades Later in South Africa, 1886-1906
From the Kerry Evening Post, 19 June 1886: “The public who are conversant with the facts of the sudden and mysterious disappearance in London of Mr Alfred M Bernard, Solicitor, of Sheheree, near Killarney, where he was on official business,… Continue reading