Former District Judge Stephen Gold takes another spin in his Tardis this week, revisiting the lawyers of yore (actually 1859 and 1860), as part of an ongoing series to mark 200 years since the founding of NLJ in 1822
As the first street trams rolled down the streets of Birkenhead, The Law Times (forerunner of NLJ) announced plans to publish six-monthly volumes of law reports. The Lord Chief Justice, opening an assize in Guildford, complained it was more like a barn than a court. Overall, there was ‘a dearth of judges and insufficiency of judicial staff’. About 11,000 people per year were sent to prison for debt.
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