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 (18151891)
Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling (19302000)
Sir Owen Dixon (18861972)
Jan Christiaan Smuts (18701950)
Learie Nicholas Constantine (19011971)
Saiyid Ameer Ali (18491928)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [
known as
Mahatma Gandhi] (18691948)
Sir John Fortescue (
c.
13971479)
Sir Thomas Littleton (
d.
1481)
Sir Edward Coke (15521634)
Sir Walter Ralegh (15541618)
Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (17561841)
Sir William Henry Rattigan (18421904)
James Scott Cumberland Reid (18901975)
William Murray (17051793)
Alfred Thompson Denning (18991999)
William Scott (17451836)
John Scott (17511838)
Heneage Finch (16211682)
Philip Yorke (16901764)
Thomas Erskine (17501823)
Sir Edward Marshall Hall (18581927)
Sir Henry Honywood Curtis-Bennett (18791936)
Gilbert Hugh Beyfus (18851960)
Ivy Williams (18771966)
Helena Florence Normanton (18821957)
Dame Margaret Henderson Kidd (19001989)
Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot (19051978)
(William John) Kenneth Diplock (19071985)
Freshfield family (18001918)
Sir William Capel Slaughter (18571917)
William May (18631932)
Sir George Henry Lewis (18331911)
George Archer-Shee (18951914)
Sir William Charles Crocker (18861973)
Sir Thomas George Lund (19061981)
Gerard Pucelle (
d.
1184)
Walter Cachepol (
d.
1369)
Peter Dene (
d.
in or after 1334)
Thomas Oughton (
b.
1660)
Francis Topham (
c.
17131770)
Henry Home (16961782)
James Burnett (
bap.
1714,
d.
1799)
John FitzGibbon (17481802)
Jonathan Christian (18081887)
William Ewart Gladstone (18091898)
Benjamin Disraeli (18041881)
Rayner Goddard (18771971)
Sir Henry Herman Slesser (18831979)
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (18021880)
Sir Charles Edward Grey (17851865)
Sir John Gorrie (18291892)
Sir (Herbert) Ralph Hone (18961992)
Thomas Vere (
d.
1682)
Richard Brandon (
d.
1649)
John Ketch (
d.
1686)
Sir Roger Townshend (
c.
14301493)
John Caryll (1460s1523)
Sir Richard Pollard (
d.
1542)
Sir John Spelman (
c.
14801546)
Thomas Peake (1771?1837)
Sir Jeffray Gilbert (16741726)
Sir Francis Buller (17461800)
William Mawdesley Best (1809?1869)
Colin Blackburn (18131896)
Thomas Flower Ellis (17961861)
John Campbell (17791861)
Andrew Amos (17911860)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859)
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine (18221888)
Edward Jenks (18611939)
Albert Venn Dicey (18351922)
Harry Street (19191984)
Stanley Alexander de Smith (19221974)
Max Grünhut (18931964)
Sir Leon Radzinowicz (19061999)
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (19071992)
Catherine Rachel Mellish (17101747)
James Somerset (
b.
c.
1741,
d.
in or after 1772)
Tichborne claimant (
d.
1898)
Arthur Orton (
b.
1834)
Robin Hood (late 12th13th cent.)
Sweeney Todd (1784)
Friar Tuck (15th cent.)
John Sheppard (17021724)
Johnny Ramensky (19051972)
Margaret Dickson (
d.
in or after 1753)
Richard Lewis [
known as
Dic Penderyn] (1807/81831)
Lewis Jenkin Lewis (
bap.
1793,
d.
1848)
Derek William Bentley (19331953)
Mervin Touchet (15931631)
Sir (Henry John) Delves Broughton (18831942)
Josslyn Victor Hay (19011941)
Kray brothers (19262000)
Adolf Beck (18411909)
Oscar Joseph Slater (18721948)
James Patrick Bulger (19901993)
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