THE TIMES .
( from The Solicitors’ Journal )
10th DEC, 1910.
COUNSEL AT THE OLD BAILEY
Steps are being taken by the Old Bailey Bar Mess to prevent the recurrence of that exclusion of the Bar from the Court during the course of the Crippen trial which excited so much indignation among legal practitioners. It appears that not only were the seats immediately behind those allotted to the Bar given up to visitors who had sufficient influence to obtain admission, but that even the 12 seats which alone are provided for barristers were not available for them. Members of the Bar other than those concerned in the case were deprived of their usual place and were compelled to occupy places in the rear of the court directly behind the dock from which nothing can be seen and next to nothing heard. Solicitors were even more unfortunate, since, unless they had special influence, they could not get into court at all. On Wednesday a general meeting of the Old Bailey Bar Mess unanimously decided to instruct their committee to consider the best method of preventing such treatment in future.
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