Law Category
Crown Courts
The Courts Act of 1971 established the network of Crown Courts and circuit judges in England and…
Trading Standards
Since the 10th century there have been laws on weights and measures to minimise differences from one…
Maritime law
Queen Eleanor (1122-1204), mother of King Richard I ‘the Lionheart’ (1157-99), ruled England in his absence on…
Solicitors
Solicitors are the British citizen’s first port-of-call for any legal matter. That could be moving house, determining…
Youth Courts
After the dust of the Industrial Revolution had settled, there began to be voices heard about declining…
Fair trial
The right to a fair trial is one which applies not just in the courts but in…
Pound sterling (GBP)
The pound sterling is the world’s oldest surviving unit of national currency. King Athelstan, the first king…
Royal Mail
Royal Mail completed its privatisation process in 2015, but it had been a state-run organisation for the…
Scotch whisky
We call it ‘whisky’, the world calls it ‘Scotch’, but the production of Scotch whisky is by…
MOTs
MOT stands for ‘Ministry of Transport’, which, in 1960, introduced the annual safety tests for cars and…
Coroners’ Courts
The role of coroner was first established in England in 1194. The equivalent in Scotland is a…
Highwaymen
In the period of 1650-1830, that small, persistent, criminal section of society found a new method open…