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21 October 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 7999 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Archive: Civil way: 21 October 2022

Stephen Gold discovers how the law was coping with war—and how lawyers were coping with its ending—as he dips into the 1943 and 1945 archives

A monthly court at Beccles replaced the Beccles and Bungay County Court and, due to pressure of business, Brentwood County Court doubled its sitting days to once a month, August excepted. Lord Justice Goddard called ‘one day’ for appeal courts to be able to review findings of fact in the county court as they could in the High Court, ‘subject to proper safeguards’.

And there was a war on. This was 1943, during which The Law Times celebrated its centenary. Paper was needed for higher purposes and so our journal had to slim down. It made space for a letter from the Directorate of Salvage and Recovery urging solicitors to come up with wastepaper of all kinds to be repulped and used in connection with the making of munitions. Out-of-date law books were especially targeted. The limitation placed on the insurance of law books

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