NLJ this week: Back to the 1980s

It’s a fascinating trip encompassing PACE, the miners’ strike and Channel 4’s Case on camera in which retired Old Bailey Judge Alan King-Hamilton QC acted as arbitrator. Gold also reminisces about Walter Merricks’s work in the 1980s—whatever happened to him?

A relaxation of the rules on solicitors advertising led to a flurry of newsletters and the appearance of ads in papers and magazines. Meanwhile, William Goodhart QC wrote a polemic in the NLJ advocating the abolition of the ‘archaic and unnecessary’ existence of silks.

Gold serves up anecdotes, commentary and nuggets from the heady 1980s here.