MAKING THE LAW POPULAR.
A writer in an evening contemporary complains that one has some difficulty in finding the notices to jurors in the newspapers.
We have often thought that more prominence might be given to the Law Notices generally. Printed in the smallest type and abbreviated almost beyond understanding, they are by no means the brightest item of news.
Would it not be an advantage to hand the department over to a smart paragraphist? Readers might then be entertained by something like the following:—
Visitors to the Law Courts to-day should on no account fail to look in at King's Bench XIII., which is one of the cosiest of our beautiful Courts of Justice. Here will be continued the scintillating contest between Sir Anthony Prius, K.C., and that rising young barrister, Mr. Terry Blee-Smart, K.C. It is more than probable that the cross-examination of the humorous butcher will continue through most of the day.
The first case on the list in the Lord Chief's Court to-day is no other than The King v. The Dean and Chapter of Mumborough Cathedral. While it is not expected that his Majesty's engagements will permit him to be present, an action of this character is fraught with more than common interest, since it must be seldom that the Royal House finds itself in such conflict with the Church as to resort to the arbitrament of the law.
We see no reason why some legal engagements should not be boldly displayed, the more readily to catch the reader's eye. Why not the following:—