Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Barbara Calvert (1926-2015), first woman to head a chambers; Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (1854-1935), Irish Unionist politician, barrister and judge. Sir Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones (1888-1966) Welsh Liberal Party politician. John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1894), English barrister, judge and Liberal politician.
Middle Temple (like the Inner Temple) is one of the few remaining liberties, an old name for a geographic division. It is an independent extra-parochial area , [ 43 ] historically not governed by the City of London Corporation [ 44 ] (and is today regarded as a local authority for most purposes) [ 45 ] and equally outside the ecclesiastical ...
The Inns played an important role in the history of the English Renaissance theatre.Notable literary figures and playwrights who resided in the Inns of Court included John Donne (1572-1631), Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), John Marston (1576-1634), Thomas Lodge (c. 1558-1625), Thomas Campion (1567-1620), Abraham Fraunce (c. 1559-c. 1593), Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Sir Thomas More (1478-1535 ...
Langford continued to hold Middle Temple at a reduced rent. In 1346, Langford's lease having by then expired, the Knights Hospitaller leased both Middle and Inner Temples to lawyers from St George's Inn and Thavie's Inn respectively. [6] However lawyers had already occupied the Temple since 1320, when it belonged to the Earl of Lancaster. [7 ...
King's Bench Walk is located in the Inner Temple, [1] one of the four Inns of Court.The other three Inns of Court are Middle Temple, [2] Lincoln's Inn [3] and Gray's Inn. [4] The area borrows its name from the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as the Knights Templar which is a historical western Christian military order that was established in 1118 AD.
Several rooms are available for conferences and a place for trainee barristers to engage in advocacy practice. Two of the Inns have chapels, and Middle Temple and Inner Temple share Temple Church. All four Inns are set in well-tended gardens and are surrounded by chambers often organised in courtyards and squares.
Darling was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1983, and in 1999 was appointed King's Counsel. [3] He was also called to the Northern Ireland Bar. In 2010, Darling became head of Keating Chambers where he remained until 2017. He then took the unusual step of moving chambers, joining general commercial set, 39 Essex Chambers. [2] [4]
Diplock was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1932. After two years in the chambers of Sir Valentine Holmes, KC, he transferred to the chambers of Sir Leslie Scott, KC. In 1939, he left legal practice for serve in the Second World War; in 1941, he joined the Royal Air Force, in which he reached the rank of squadron leader.