All articles by James Morton – Page 9
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NewsExotic flowers in the jury box
First women to sit on juries faced expected and unexpected challenges.
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NewsWindies legend bowls 'em over
I can’t think in my pantheon of sporting lawyers how I came to omit the great West Indian cricketer Sir Learie Constantine. Mea culpa. He played for the Windies from 1923 until 1939, during which time he also played in Lancashire League cricket. Morton landscape Wisden described ...
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NewsDestroyer of Victorian vice
Sometimes I worry about solicitors becoming too involved in their cases. A case in point, admittedly a century ago, is that of C H Collette, solicitor for the Society of the Suppression of Vice.
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NewsThe great days of conference
Confession. I miss the style of conferences the Law Society used to hold. I know I railed against them in the past, claiming they were a waste of money, but I miss them.
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NewsRearranging the flowers
Recently there was a reminder of when two women were wrongly convicted of stealing teddy bears from Princess Diana tributes.
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NewsA trial that may never end
The case of convicted murderer Mark Lundy fails to leave the headlines.
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NewsInjudicious behaviour
Now we have some judges actually getting down and dirty, we complain about it.
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NewsBygone days mowing lawns
Before the advent of law centres, pro bono work involved mowing elderly lady clients’ lawns.
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News‘Mad’ Frank the litigator
We recall the later career of ‘Mad’ Frank Fraser, who died last month.
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NewsMemories of Eveleigh trials
News of the death of Sir Edward Eveleigh evokes stories involving the urbane judge.
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NewsBrave lawyer defied KKK
Samuel Leibowitz, who defended the Scottsboro Boys, would rank high in a table of courageous lawyers.
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NewsBritain’s last witch trial
It is 70 years since the last prosecution under the Witchcraft Act – and it’s not who many people think.
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NewsBrushes with the noose
Two men I defended were convicted of murder – both would have gone to the gallows if the death penalty was in use.
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NewsAmerican rap sheet arrives
Are we going down another American pathway, featuring arrests alongside convictions?
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NewsLosing it in translation
Competent interpreters were even more thin on the ground in the 1970s.
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