It's time for another spin in former District Judge Stephen Gold’s tardis, as NLJ’s very own Time Lord takes us back to the early days of this esteemed legal magazine
As the mists of time dissipate, we arrive in the Roaring Twenties. It’s party time at the Law Society. Editorials are ‘generally sycophantic towards High Court judges… however, a pot shot was taken’ at a judge over a case involving bags of potatoes, followed by an about-turn in tone a week later. However, some things never change: a judge who had been an MP for 30 years revealed the ‘Commons smoking room was “a veritable school for scandal”… The average MP was a mechanical toy, manipulated at his will and pleasure by the party leader. The road to office involved a toll of “fidelity, complaisant and obsequious”’.
There were discussions about merging the professions of barristers and solicitor. Lord Merrivale opined ‘that while speech was a powerful instrument, any practising barrister know that silence was very often as great’.RELATED ARTICLES
