Legal London by Mark Herber
London has been home to more lawyers, for more centuries, than any other city on earth. Paris ran it neck-and-neck until the 18th century, after which London romped away as the national and then imperial capital of a legal system with centralised Royal Courts of Justice, Inns of Court, Courts of Appeal, debtors prisons, the Old Bailey, the Archbishop's Court at St Mary le Bow, the Bridewell, the notorious Fleet Prison, and the Metropolitan Police. No other city so celebrates, in surviving buildings and institutions, the work of judges, lawyers, litigants, criminals and the police! This new book does justice to them all... Covering both civil and criminal aspects of the law, the author's narrative account is enormously expanded by some two hundred photographs and engravings, each fully captioned; plus maps to show the location of the courts, Inns, prisons and other places of punishment throughout the metropolis. This fascinating study of the law at work in days gone by is both entertaining and informative. Though of particular value to everyone interested in London history, it will appeal to members of the legal and law enforcement professions everywhere that the 'English' system and tradition has left its mark.
MARK HERBER read history and politics at University; then trained as a lawyer, qualifying as a solicitor in 1984. He specialised in fraud and insolvency litigation and investigations, until 1996 at Allen & Overy, in the City of London, and then at the Serious Fraud Office. A member of the Society of Genealogists, he is the author of Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History (1997) which was awarded the Library Association's McColvin Medal for an outstanding work of reference and which included detailed guidance to the records of the English courts. Mark has also had published two volumes of transcripts of the 18th-century marriage registers of the Fleet Prison and the rules of the Fleet, featuring many clandestine marriages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860775079 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860775071 |
| Title | Legal London |
| Author | Mark Herber |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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