Word: benches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands of Britons arrested under the Act was a certain Captain Thomas Wilson of Glasgow. During his 17-month imprisonment he petitioned the King's Bench for an appeal. The petition was intercepted by the Home Office "for scrutiny" and promptly suppressed by one of Sir John Anderson's underlings...
After his release Captain Wilson asked the King's Bench to charge Sir John with contempt of Court, claimed ?5,000 damages for loss of Constitutional rights...
...case was heard last week by a King's Bench Justice, Sir Travers Humphreys, 75, famed criminal lawyer and onetime Cambridge rowing man. When the Government's Attorney General maintained that the Home Office action did not constitute contempt, Mr. Justice Humphreys snapped: "An official of the Home Office is not the servant of Sir John Anderson. Both are servants of the Crown. . . . Are you saying that it is for some subordinate in one of the Ministries to decide what this Court will look...
...person-I care not how high his position or how great his name-be found to have interfered with the rights of one of His Majesty's subjects, I think I should have no difficulty in putting into force . . . the great powers of this King's Bench Division of imprisoning such a person for contempt of Court...
...liberal education, we would have, I believe, more faith in ourselves-more faith in the great leavening process of democracy, which forever pushes new men to the top. I think it was William Howard Taft who said you could find a man fit to sit on the Supreme Court Bench of the United States in any town in America of more than 5,000 population. Possibly Mr. Taft exaggerated. Yet surely the principle has been proved time after time in American history. The vast American educational system has set men free -free not alone to serve, but free also...