JUDICIAL WIG
DIGNITY OF JUSTICE (From "The Post's"' Representative) ' LONDON, 30th Not. ' The value of wigs and robes was emphasised by Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, speaking at the annual dinner of the Liverpool Shipbrokers' Benevolent Society. A previous speaker, his Lordship said, had spoken as if he did not like the robes of the Judges. "I think really he must be jealous, for lie is a. county Magistrate," Lord Hewart remarked. "I do. not see any reason why county magistrates (should not sit in robes. (Laughter.) There is more ia robes than meets the eye. A couple of years ago a deputation of barristers and lawyers from Canada and the United States came over to England, and they, were much impressed by many things! not the. least of which was the decorum and order observed in our Courts of justice. I think that reticence'and reserve is to some extent attributable to our ivigs and robes. It is a curious little sidelight on human nature, for I believe it in a. fact that in many places where wigs and robes are not worn there is not the game civility and decorum upon which we in the courts of justice rather pride our*-. selves."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 11
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204JUDICIAL WIG Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 11
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