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The Royal Courts of Justice

 

 

OldBailey

The Old Bailey

 

 

 

 

 

Middle Temple Hall

Middle Temple Hall

 

 

Lancastercourt

Assize Court at Lancaster

 

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“ Justice is not a cloistered virtue: she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men" - Lord Atkin in Ambard v Attorney-General for Trinidad and Tobago (1936) AC 322 at 335