{"id":342,"date":"2006-09-24T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-09-24T22:49:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T22:49:25","slug":"wigs-and-robes-to-go-in-civil-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Wigs and robes to go in civil courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 72px; HEIGHT: 83px\" height=132 alt=\"Judge in wig\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthform.info\/lawblog\/files\/_290996_denning_rolls150.jpg\" width=100 border=0>It is reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/newspaper\/0,,175-2371572,00.html\">The Times<\/a> that Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, has started consulting the judiciary about scrapping wigs (and elaborate robes) in civil cases but to retain them in the criminal courts. <\/p>\n<p>This issue raises its head about every five years, this time it appears to be supported by solicitor advocates who are not allowed to wear wigs. Also, it is known that a large number of High Court judges favour the change and for the first time the issue is for the judiciary to decide and not the LCD, because of the changes brought in by the <strong>Constitutional Reform Act 2005<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>It is thought that there is likely to be some changes in attire because when Lord Phillips took office he declared his dislike judicial costumes and made it clear that he would like to do away with wigs.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is reported in The Times that Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice, has started consulting the judiciary about scrapping wigs (and elaborate robes) in civil cases but to retain them in the criminal courts. This issue raises its head about every five years, this time it appears to be supported by solicitor advocates who [&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-342","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\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}