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From: (cecilia)
Subject: Re: Where to find UK court records from 1930's-1950's
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:17:25 GMT
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Michael wrote:
>Hans Norton wrote:
>>[...] If you know the names of the parties and the year, look in
>> the AER (All England Law Reports) for that year. If the case was
>> groundbreaking, or created a possible legal precedent, or was exploring
>> new grounds, a precis of facts and the full judgement will be written
>> up. [...] Not all that many are so written up, but its worth a
>> phone call.
>[...] From what I can tell it was a farely straight forward
>case.
It still might be worth asking, if you happen to find yourself within
reach of the Reports, just in case there was some minor point. I
found that an attempt-to-commit-a-felony case in 1854 produced an
account, not of the trial but of the preliminary discussion as whether
bail should be granted before the Assizes. (In this case, newspapers
produced good reports of the trial etc, but did not seem to have
covered the preliminaries so well.)
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