All articles by James Morton – Page 6
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NewsRisqué business taints law officers
It is sobering to look back at history to see how some of the ‘great and good’ behaved.
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NewsPerils of absent body of evidence
News that a man thought to have been killed had been found hiding in a wood is a reminder of the dangers of going to trial in murder cases without a body.
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NewsOn the job hunt for POW towel
When Brougham’s towel - marked with his prisoner of war number - disappeared, all work stopped until it was recovered.
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NewsAcrobat who was called to the bars
Jean Marie Jules Léotard created the art of the flying trapeze. You can’t get much further from the law than that.
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NewsFaking it to get off the hook
Escaping traffic offences, avoiding child maintenance payments, and dodging a parking fine: reasons to fake your own death.
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NewsWhen Saturday comes for law
My principal Simpson refused to close on a Saturday morning. And I believe he was right.
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NewsLong and short arm of the law
Henry Rooth delivered such lengthy statements he talked himself into acquitting a man.
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NewsMcKenzie friends hit a half century
50 years ago this month saw the birth of the McKenzie friend.
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NewsSolicitor vexed by village venom
Prosecution case that Harold Greenwood murdered his wife by poisoning was not a strong one.
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NewsLegal lothario’s lethal liaison
One hundred years ago solicitor Harold Greenwood was charged with the murder of his wife.
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NewsPerjury was only the beginning…
When Arthur Castro aka Orton was sentenced to 14 years for perjury in the Tichborne claim, it wasn’t the end of the case.
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NewsVexing case of law’s serial suer
While there is doubtless fierce competition for the title of most annoying lawyer, the winner – by a margin – must be one-time Bedford Row solicitor Alexander Chaffers.
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NewsOut of Africa and back for a coup
I arrived on an overnight plane to observe trials in a country where a coup had been thwarted.
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NewsBar’s jimmer in the box seat
Jimmering – to get a free or better seat than that paid for – seems to have begun in the 1930s.
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NewsBench jury trials for the lockdown
The outcry against the idea of three-day jury trials during the lockdown was justified. Would jurors, sitting in what seem generally to be regarded as insanitary conditions, have become vulnerable after only 21 hours in court plus a few hours in their room? With the greatest respect (as we ...
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NewsTwiss in the tale of criminal libel
In 1871 a Bedford Row solicitor began hounding the wife of an international lawyer.
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NewsStumped for justice in Africa
Monidipa Fouzder’s summary eviction from a court reminds me of difficulties I encountered when trying to observe trials in an African jurisdiction.
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NewsThe problem with experts
Some expert witnesses are lured into giving evidence they live to regret. Others simply find themselves in the wrong case.
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NewsBattle of writs in trial showdown
In 1817, an acquitted man rearrested in connection with a rape and murder elected Trial by Battle.