{"id":286,"date":"2006-03-24T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-24T00:30:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T00:30:16","slug":"wigs-in-the-news-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Wigs in the news again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Phillips the Lord Chief Justice says he wants to do away with wigs for judges and barristers in civil cases. The chairman of the Bar Council made a similar comment in an editorial in the Bar Magazine. <\/p>\n<p>Solicitor advocates have complained that they appear &#8220;inferior advocates&#8221; because they are not permitted to wear wigs but&nbsp;solicitor QCs are allowed to wear them. <\/p>\n<p>In May 2003 the Department for Constitutional Affairs&nbsp;held an&nbsp;enquiry which&nbsp;cost \u00a3100,000 into the wearing of&nbsp;wigs in courts. <\/p>\n<p>As Lord Donaldson put it, &#8220;There is no urgent need to go discarding something which has been out of date for at least a century&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Phillips the Lord Chief Justice says he wants to do away with wigs for judges and barristers in civil cases. The chairman of the Bar Council made a similar comment in an editorial in the Bar Magazine. Solicitor advocates have complained that they appear &#8220;inferior advocates&#8221; because they are not permitted to wear wigs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}