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Archive: Civil way: 18 November 2022

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18 November 2022 / Stephen Gold
Issue: 8003 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
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Stephen Gold discovers how in 1954 the courts faced the trial backlog, hears a Hampshire burr, and comes across marmalade pudding at the Law Society

It is 1954 which sees the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. An opportunity for courts to close for two days, albeit that for this year only, shutters would be up for the Queen’s birthday. The Law Times—£3.18s.6d annual subscription for 52 copies and 7s 6d for a 30-word classified ad—got in on the act with a special commemorative edition. Said the editor to the regular ‘Conveyancer’ columnist: ‘We are running “The Crown in Popular Estimation”. “Heraldry of the Coronation”. A whole load of stuff like that. Can you do, say, restrictive covenants for the benefit of Buckingham Palace?’ ‘No.’ He did ‘Conveyancing in Five Reigns’.

Too much crime

The backlog of High Court civil cases awaiting trial in London and on the circuits was serious, and it was far too early to blame COVID-19. The year’s Hilary Term opened with 1,700 trials

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