From the Treasurer
It is a great pleasure to introduce this edition of the Middle Templar. The picture which emerges...
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From the Under Treasurer
At the end of my second week, it is a pleasure to be able to write an introduction for the Middle...
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History
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Middle Temple Buildings – What an Entrance
There is no other part of Temple quite like the buildings at the top end of Middle Temple Lane....
Book Reviews
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‘The Chosen City’ by David Wurtzel
Master David Wurtzel must be one of the most unlikely of Middle Temple Ordinary Benchers. Born in...
International
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Aotearoa New Zealand as a Constitutional Monarchy
The monarchy has long been a link for many Pākehā New Zealanders to their roots. The royals are...
Wales Circuit Society
Greetings from Wales/ Cyfarchion o Gymru with news of events over the 2022-23 year. On Friday 7...
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What can the Midlands do for Middle Temple? What can Middle Temple for the Midlands? In one sense,...
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The year has turned towards Summer again, so it is time for my annual round-up of the Northern...
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I am beginning to think that the North of England has incurred the wrath of the gods. In 2020 our annual joint dinner with the Northern Circuit was cancelled as a result of the Covid Pandemic. In 2021, the dinner in Liverpool...
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Regular
LatestMichaelmas 2022 Reading
The Evolution of Jury Direction Manuals – Where Next? The following article is an abridged and edited version of Master Ormerod’s Reading as Autumn Master Reader 2022, delivered at his Reader’s Feast on Tuesday 15 November 2022....
Education
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When one thinks of Qualifying Sessions, what comes to mind is often lectures relating to interesting points of law; dinners and/or seminars. Tough Topics blows this notion of a Qualifying Session completely out of the water....
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My Middle Temple Journey
My parents were from Dublin. They left school early and came to this country in search of a better...
Obituaries
PopularMaster Ian Murphy
1949 – 2023
It is with deep sadness that Circuit learned of the untimely death of one of its greats: Ian Murphy KC. Called to the Bar in 1972, Ian became a pupil at 34 Park Place where he took a tenancy the following year. A formidable...
