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Inside and Outside the Law - Big Cases in 2014

Submitted by Colin on 18 January 2014 - 9:43am

Court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand is tucked away in the North-East end of the complex, and is London’s High Court for civil litigation.

If you had reviewed the Courts Lists online or in the RCJ hall during the latter part of last year, you would have seen against Court 73: “Inquest into the death of Mark Duggan”.

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Central Criminal Courts of Justice

Royal Courts of Justice

Rumpole

Walks

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Scandal and Secrets after Christmas 2013

Submitted by Colin on 3 December 2013 - 11:30am

On Saturday 28 December fellow Westminster Guide, Kathryn Prevezer, and I ran a walk entitled West End Scandal and Secrets. Below are some teaser photos. The walk covered stories from Fitzrovia and a little of Soho. We had great feedback, and hope to do the walk again during 2014.

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Moses Montefiore - London and...Ramsgate

Submitted by Colin on 1 November 2013 - 11:30am

As a teenager growing up in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, I didn’t take much notice of road names.

I may have been able to deduce that The Plains of Waterloo in Ramsgate had something to do with a famous British military victory, but Grange Road in the same town was just another road, and certainly not recognised as the road leading to the house designed by Augustus Pugin and as became his family home from 1844 until his death in 1852.

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Augustus Pugin

Bevis Marks

Chatham House Grammar School

Townley Castle College

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Garden Court - the Chambers open for Open House

Submitted by Colin on 4 October 2013 - 11:00am

Open House London has locked up for another year. After a 2012 of suffering bewildering ballots and a wobbly website, the hard-working OH devotees have gone back to basics in 2013 and have queued, or in the case of some at Battersea Power Station have valiantly sought the end of the queue before giving up.

Amongst the gems on display was a building that combines Grade 1 listed architecture, the home of a British Prime Minister, and the fictional home of one of Charles Dickens’ darkest characters.

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Garden Court Chambers

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London and Edinburgh - the Crystal Connection

Submitted by Colin on 24 August 2013 - 9:10am

The architecture of Scotland's capital is so Gordon Brown, oozing dour gravitas from the sandstone, and proclaiming its prudent psyche. The banking debacle has not damaged Edinburgh's image for the visitor, and the August overseas tourists throng Princes Street to marvel at apparently cross-dressing local males wearing heavy woollen skirts and bellowing out patriotic tunes on the bagpipes.

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