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who heard the trials of the most serious offences, such as murder, and on
the first day was given a formal escort) into court.23 Reportedly, on “formal,
ceremonial occasions”, flowers are still carried into court today.24
ENDNOTES
1. In the English usage, any non-silk.
2. “Occasional Notes”, Law Times (London) (19
November 1938), vol 186 at 373–74.
3. The Law Journal (London) (23 January 1892) at 79.
4. Sir Henry Brooke, “Mourning Bands and Weepers”
(4 August 2017), online: <www.sirhenrybrooke.me
/2017/08/04/mourning-bands-and-weepers/>.
5. Gordon McG Sloan, “Saint Yves” (1940) 18 Can Bar
Rev 18 at 107–15.
6. Ibid at 108.
7. Supra note 3 at 80.
8. SBC 1905, c 16. See Courthouse Libraries BC,
“Court Attire” (revised 6 January 2020), online:
<www.courthouselibrary.ca/how-we-can-help/ourlegal
knowledge-base/court-attire>.
9. This title is from English crime novelist Margery
Allingham’s Flowers for the Judge, which was
published in 1936 and featured detective Albert
Campion.
10. Albert Crew, “The Reformation of the Old Bailey”
(1935) 3 Medico-Legal Criminological Review 149
at 151.
11. “Edward Clark”, online: <www.oldbaileyonline.org
/browse.jsp?div=t17500425-19>.
12. William Renwick Riddell, “The Judge’s Nosegay at
the Old Bailey” (1929) 15 ABA J 49.
13. Crew, supra note 10 at 153.
14. Ibid at 160.
15. George H Boldt, “Judges and Wardens: Teammates
for Rehabilitation” (1970) 53 Judicature 250.
16. Theobald Mathew, “Dr. Johnson and the Old Bailey”
(1938) 3 Cambridge LJ 182.
17. Ibid.
18. See, variously, ibid; Crew, supra note 10 at 160;
Cassilly Cook, “A Famous Murder Trial in ‘Old Bailey’”
(1920) 4 Am L Sch Rev 556 at 558.
19. Crew, supra note 10 at 160; Cook, supra note 18 at
558.
20. Cook, supra note 18 at 558.
21. Ibid.
22. “Old Bailey Judges Parade to Court Carrying
Posies”, The Daily Illini (1 August 1946) at 4.
23. “The Old Bailey: London’s Seat of Criminal Justice”
(1971) 57 ABA J 1104 at 1109, citing a booklet
about the Old Bailey prepared by five members of
the Central Criminal Court Journalists’ Association.
24. “About the Old Bailey”, online: <old-bailey.com
/about-the-old-bailey>; “Newgate Prison”, online:
<old-bailey.com/newgate-prison>.
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