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15 April 2022
Issue: 7975 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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NLJ this week | Archive Civil way: 200 years & still going strong

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To celebrate 200 years of NLJ’s history former District Judge and NLJ columnist Stephen Gold steps back in time, snuff box in hand, to the cobbled streets of yesteryear to pen a new series of columns from the archive

Some issues of this distant past may strike a chord today. Gold writes: ‘Lawyers were being unfairly attacked by the peers―“It is time to meet the matter gravely, and assume a resolute attitude of defence”, proclaimed an editorial… The profits of lawyers had reduced by one-half since 1825.’

Gold spins the clock to sample the professional worldview of NLJ’s forefathers (no women were allowed back then). He reports back from Victorian times on jealous mutterings between advocates and attorneys, advertised cures for gentlemen’s gout and the regular correspondence of a Mr Stone.

Issue: 7975 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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