Category: Obituaries

Johnny Depp’s action against The Sun had been billed as the libel trial of the century. But in a 129-page judgment that devastated the actor’s so-called ‘army’ of fans, Mr Justice Nicol threw out...

In the Juryman’s Tale, journalist Trevor Grove’s account of jury service on a long kidnapping trial at the Old Bailey, Michael Gale, leading counsel for the main defendant, was portrayed as a one-dimensional figure –...

A racially motivated killing must be one of the gravest kinds of killing, Sir Edwin Jowitt told the defendants before him. He added: ‘You put your heads together with the purpose of arming yourselves and of attacking an...

Walter Stafford Aylen was born in May 1937, the son of Bishop Charles Aylen and his wife Elizabeth, and died on Saturday, 15 November 2025. On Friday, 1 April 1966 he married Peggy Woodford, and they had three daughters, Alison,...

The news that Master James Munby had died suddenly at home on New Year’s Day 2026 came as a great shock to his many friends and former colleagues in the law. He was one of the outstanding lawyers of his generation and a...