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13 unusual facts about Inns of Court


Barristers' clerk

More than half the clerks work in London, mainly in and around the four Inns of Court, with the remainder being in large towns and cities.

Benson Commission

In other ways, however, the report was revolutionary – it recommended a Council of Legal Services to advise the Lord Chancellor (something eventually realised in the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct), a movement of advice services such as the Citizens Advice Bureau into the legal fold, and a single unified body to regulate barristers, rather than a fragmentation between the Bar Council and Inns of Court.

Caro Fraser

The novel was written largely from a male standpoint, and deals with the trials and fortunes of Anthony Cross during his six month pupillage at Caper Court, and the various characters he meets in the eccentric world of the Inns of Court in London.

Doughty Street Chambers

Doughty Street Chambers was set up in 1990 by thirty independent-minded barristers, aiming to break the mould of traditional chambers by moving out of the Inns of Court.

Edward North, 1st Baron North

He then entered one of the Inns of Court, was called to the bar, and became counsel for the City of London, probably through the influence of Alderman Wilkinson, who had married his sister Joan.

Oxford's Men

Oxford's players almost immediately got involved in a brawl with some Inns of Court students while playing at The Theatre in Shoreditch, and several members were thrown into gaol, but they were out and on the road by early June.

Philip Bermingham

At a time when there was no formal training for law students in Dublin, Bermingham was one of a small number of senior judges who provided a rudimentary form of education for students who would later go on to one of the English Inns of Court.

Robert D. Durham

Robert Durham is a member of the Board of Directors for Oregon Law Institute of Lewis & Clark Law School, the Multnomah County and Marion County Bar Associations, and a master at the Willamette Valley American Inns of Court, Master.

Robert Tofte

Though no student of law, Tofte kept his lodgings in Holborn near London's Inns of Court, societies that included Edmund Spenser, John Harington, and John Marston as members.

Sir Arthur Otway, 3rd Baronet

After his time in the military, he began to study law at the Middle Temple, one of London's four Inns of Court; in 1850 he was called to the Bar.

Stephen Markman

He is a Fellow of the Michigan Bar Foundation, a Master of the Bench of the Inns of Court.

The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

Melville was inspired to write "The Paradise of Bachelors" by a trip to the Inns of Court in December 1849.

Thomas Chase

As Lord Chancellor he is mainly remembered for his petition to the Privy Council that Irish law students seeking admission to the Inns of Court in London should receive equal treatment with their English colleagues, to which the Council returned a favourable response.


Eric Rosen

During this time Rosen was a member of Koch Crime Commission, lectured at the Menninger School of Law and Psychiatry, 2004-2005 President of the Sam A. Crow Inns of Court and was appointed to the presidential commission charged with commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.