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NLJ200 Archive Civil way: 13 May 2022

13 May 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7978 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice
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Stephen Gold continues his nose through the archives. This week—war law rations & a voyage around the courts

It is 1854. We have joined the Crimean War with a ‘National Day of Fast and Humility’ quickly held in support. The Law Times, which was in its second decade of life, responded to the hostilities with weekly rations of war law. Oscar Wilde was born, Dickens’s Hard Times was published, parents and guardians delighted in the opening of Cheltenham Ladies College and the eldest son of the deceased Mr Justice Talfourd obtained his maiden brief at Berkshire Assizes. The legal organ reported in a style reminiscent of an Ealing comedy script that the brief was in a civil case of some importance and that Talfourd Junior had acquitted himself in a manner that was most satisfactory to the numerous friends of his estimable father. At the conclusion of the trial, he had received the warm congratulations of his friends at the Bar.

Marriage, deafness, decayed teeth & pens

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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