Thursday, May 23, 2013

Day 11: The Legal walk

The royal corts of justice
Today we went on the Legal Walk of London. This gave us a chance to see where the top lawyers (barristers) train. There are four inns which are kind of like colleges. They apply and must must attend the inns twelve times before taking their bar exam. The for inns are called Inner Temple inn, Middle Temple inn, Lincoln inn, and the Grey's inn. After we saw the inns we went to the Royal Courts of Justice; which is their main court if appeal. There we got to sit in at a trial. We came in at the end of one where the judge was giving the opinion (decision). Then we saw the start of a second case before leaving. It's kind of hard to explain what happened because I got confused in the first one, and the second one the judges told the appellants lawyer they were prepared to rule in their case. After we left the court we went and saw the Metropolitan Police Museum. It was really cool. We got to see a lot of artifacts from the early policing days. London was the first city to have a uniformed police in the early 1800s. They also showed us a copy of the investigation if Jack the Ripper. It was also the last time we would get to see Constable Richard. I would like to thank him for everything that he did for us while we were here. Our day spent with Constable Richard and Phil last week was my favorite day. After that we went back and I relaxed till Dana got back. She got back about 8 and we went and grabbed some dinner. Tomorrow is our last free day and then we will be home!!!!!
These are the wigs that the barristers and judges have to buy. They only cost about 600 pounds.


Lincoln's inn


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