Chief Judge
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…When hanging was the sentence, on conviction, for crimes – in these days termed offences – which are no punished by imprisonment, some judges from meting out the sentence of death almost indiscriminately came to be known as “hanging judges.” Justice Page was one of them. When he was decrepit he perpetrated a joke against…
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Having met the famous Dr Brocklesby at supper, Lord Mansfield engaged him in serious conversations and they shared stories – funny, weird and interesting. The next morning he appeared before the judge in court, sitting in a witness-box; and on the strength of their previous evening’s doings the witness, on taking up his position, nodded…
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