During this period he enjoyed a very large practice at the bar, being instructed in many causes célèbres including the Swynfen will case and Cardinal Newman's criminal prosecution for his libel of Giacinto Achilli.
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Badeley was assistant counsel to Sir Alexander Cockburn in Newman's defence when he was prosecuted for libel by Giacinto Achilli in 1852.