George V celebrated his silver jubilee. Brian Clough and Barry Cryer were born. Stanley Baldwin succeeded Ramsay MacDonald as prime minister. Criminal advocates were given a golden thread to weave into their addresses to the jury on the presumption of innocence by courtesy of Woolmington v DPP. County court registrars were vested with jurisdiction to try disputed claims not exceeding £10 in value. Lord de Clifford had no case to answer on being tried by the House of Lords on a charge of manslaughter arising out of a road accident—and why not ease the current criminal trial logjam by handing over the trials of all peers to the upper house?
This was 1935 and The Law Journal marched on with more than a little help from its friends, the charity advertisers, including Battersea Dogs’ Home which puffed that in the previous year it had dealt with over 22,700 dogs but
