Former district judge and keen legal archaeologist Stephen Gold has unearthed more treasure from the NLJ archives. This week he takes us back to 1935, when stipes and county court judges are told to retire in their 70s but High Court judges can go on forever.
Gold writes: ‘One correspondent found it abhorrent when a judge of 80 dealt with a youth of 17, a divorcé of 25 or even with the torts of the young.’
The validity of Gretna Green weddings was questioned. There was a series of peculiar cases—shenanigans following the loss of a swarm of bees and, perhaps paying homage to the earlier drama of Donoghue v Stevenson, a Mrs Cattermole contracted agonising dermatitis after consuming a tin of peas.
Meanwhile, solicitors were to be considered gentlemen and the Bar Council banned all forms of advertising by barristers.
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