Feature essay

Lives of the law

by Tom Bingham

  • Judicial authors, and lawmakers
  • The advocates
  • Solicitors
  • Ecclesiastical and canon lawyers
  • The judiciary
  • Executioners
  • Law reporters
  • Legal scholarship
  • Litigants
  • Lawbreakers
  • Victims

References

See also

  • Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1815–1891)
  • Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling (1930–2000)
  • Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972)
  • Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950)
  • Learie Nicholas Constantine (1901–1971)
  • Saiyid Ameer Ali (1849–1928)
  • Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [known as Mahatma Gandhi] (1869–1948)
  • Sir John Fortescue (c.1397–1479)
  • Sir Thomas Littleton (d. 1481)
  • Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634)
  • Sir Walter Ralegh (1554–1618)
  • Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (1756–1841)
  • Sir William Henry Rattigan (1842–1904)
  • James Scott Cumberland Reid (1890–1975)
  • William Murray (1705–1793)
  • Alfred Thompson Denning (1899–1999)
  • William Scott (1745–1836)
  • John Scott (1751–1838)
  • Heneage Finch (1621–1682)
  • Philip Yorke (1690–1764)
  • Thomas Erskine (1750–1823)
  • Sir Edward Marshall Hall (1858–1927)
  • Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett (1879–1936)
  • Gilbert Hugh Beyfus (1885–1960)
  • Ivy Williams (1877–1966)
  • Helena Florence Normanton (1882–1957)
  • Dame Margaret Henderson Kidd (1900–1989)
  • Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot (1905–1978)
  • (William John) Kenneth Diplock (1907–1985)
  • Freshfield family (1800–1918)
  • Sir William Capel Slaughter (1857–1917)
  • William May (1863–1932)
  • Sir George Henry Lewis (1833–1911)
  • George Archer-Shee (1895–1914)
  • Sir William Charles Crocker (1886–1973)
  • Sir Thomas George Lund (1906–1981)
  • Gerard Pucelle (d. 1184)
  • Walter Cachepol (d. 1369)
  • Peter Dene (d. in or after 1334)
  • Thomas Oughton (b. 1660)
  • Francis Topham (c.1713–1770)
  • Henry Home (1696–1782)
  • James Burnett (bap. 1714, d. 1799)
  • John FitzGibbon (1748–1802)
  • Jonathan Christian (1808–1887)
  • William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898)
  • Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
  • Rayner Goddard (1877–1971)
  • Sir Henry Herman Slesser (1883–1979)
  • Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1802–1880)
  • Sir Charles Edward Grey (1785–1865)
  • Sir John Gorrie (1829–1892)
  • Sir (Herbert) Ralph Hone (1896–1992)
  • Thomas Vere (d. 1682)
  • Richard Brandon (d. 1649)
  • John Ketch (d. 1686)
  • Sir Roger Townshend (c.1430–1493)
  • John Caryll (1460s–1523)
  • Sir Richard Pollard (d. 1542)
  • Sir John Spelman (c.1480–1546)
  • Thomas Peake (1771?–1837)
  • Sir Jeffray Gilbert (1674–1726)
  • Sir Francis Buller (1746–1800)
  • William Mawdesley Best (1809?–1869)
  • Colin Blackburn (1813–1896)
  • Thomas Flower Ellis (1796–1861)
  • John Campbell (1779–1861)
  • Andrew Amos (1791–1860)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
  • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (1822–1888)
  • Edward Jenks (1861–1939)
  • Albert Venn Dicey (1835–1922)
  • Harry Street (1919–1984)
  • Stanley Alexander de Smith (1922–1974)
  • Max Grünhut (1893–1964)
  • Sir Leon Radzinowicz (1906–1999)
  • Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907–1992)
  • Catherine Rachel Mellish (1710–1747)
  • James Somerset (b. c.1741, d. in or after 1772)
  • Tichborne claimant (d. 1898)
  • Arthur Orton (b. 1834)
  • Robin Hood (late 12th–13th cent.)
  • Sweeney Todd (1784)
  • Friar Tuck (15th cent.)
  • John Sheppard (1702–1724)
  • Johnny Ramensky (1905–1972)
  • Margaret Dickson (d. in or after 1753)
  • Richard Lewis [known as Dic Penderyn] (1807/8–1831)
  • Lewis Jenkin Lewis (bap. 1793, d. 1848)
  • Derek William Bentley (1933–1953)
  • Mervin Touchet (1593–1631)
  • Sir (Henry John) Delves Broughton (1883–1942)
  • Josslyn Victor Hay (1901–1941)
  • Kray brothers (1926–2000)
  • Adolf Beck (1841–1909)
  • Oscar Joseph Slater (1872–1948)
  • James Patrick Bulger (1990–1993)
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