XXXI. An Account of the Mission of Yusuf Agha, Ambassador from Turkey to the British Court

1834 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 496-504
Keyword(s):  
British Court

Tuesday, the 8th of Rajab 1209 (29th January 1795), having been fixed upon for delivering, with splendour and ceremony, the imperial letters and presents entrusted to me, the , or officer acting as master of the ceremonies, and the secretary to the King, waited upon us three days previous, and announced that they had His Majesty's commands to regulate the forms and ceremonies of the audience, and that they were most anxious to do every thing in their power to honour and oblige us.

Address to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

1866 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 126-128
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Literature And Science ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
High Place ◽  
British Court

We, the President and Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, desire humbly to approach your Royal Highness with the expression of our dutiful and heartfelt congratulations on your Royal Highness's marriage.Ever ready to rejoice at whatever affords a prospect of increased happiness to your Royal Highness, and a further security for the continued sway of a Royal House which has conferred on this realm so many benefits and blessings, we hail with especial interest and gratification the union of your Royal Highness with a daughter of an ancient nation, distinguished at all times for noble and generous qualities, and which holds a high place among the countries of Europe in literature and science; and above all, we regard it as an unspeakable boon that the Royal Lady whom we now welcome to our shores is endowed with all those virtues and attractions which are best calculated to bless and adorn domestic life, to assist in cheering the widowed solitude of our beloved Sovereign, and to sustain in unsullied lustre the honour and dignity of the British Court.

scholarly journals FromJudge JudytoJudge RinderandJudge Geordie: humour, emotion and ‘televisual legal consciousness’

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Common Reading ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
British Court

AbstractThis paper attempts to counter legal studies’ common reading of court TV shows by starting with an understanding of themastelevision, rather comparing them to ‘real courts’. It analyses two recent examples of British court TV shows –Judge Rinder(ITV, 2014–) andJudge Geordie(MTV, 2015) – to draw out how the text'sformestablishes particular kinds of ‘televisual legal consciousness’.Judge Rinder’s daytime address and his camped authority allow a frame in which humour can disarm conflict and reveal wider political injustice.Judge Geordie’s irreverent upturning of the judged into judge draws upon the registers of youth reality television to privilege affect and emotion. In staging some of the tensions between law's masculine rationality and popular culture's feminine emotionality, these shows enact their interdependence. Such an analysis that includes attention to form, address and genre allows us a deeper exploration of the relationship between television, law and the everyday.

The Boston Gazette and Slavery as Revolutionary Propaganda

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
British Court

Boston Gazette content in the six years prior to the Declaration of Independence revealed the slavery issue was used to unite patriot fervor under a proslavery position. Specifically, the Gazette misguided readers regarding the 1772 decision in which the American slave James Somerset was freed by a British court, chose not to reflect the debate on slavery under way in other colonial newspapers, selected items that promoted Southern patriarchy, and appropriated the word “slavery” as a metaphor representing colonial America vis-à-vis Great Britain. The author concludes such use was deliberate as part of the propagandistic mission of the Gazette.

scholarly journals Judicial Behavior and Devolution at the Privy Council

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Amaral-Garcia ◽  
Nuno Garoupa
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Behavior ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
High Court ◽  
Attitudinal Model ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
The World ◽  
British Court ◽  
Unique Dataset

AbstractIn this article, we study judicial behavior at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). British judges in general, and British high court judges in particular, are perceived to be independent and isolated from political pressure and interference. Furthermore, these judges tend to show a particularly high rate of consensus. This has led many scholars to consider that, contrarily to what holds for several other courts around the world (such as the US Supreme Court), the attitudinal model does not find support when British higher court judges are considered. In this paper we assess whether similar conclusions might be drawn from the JCPC, another British court of last resort. We create a unique dataset to study empirically decisions of the JCPC and investigate the extent to which judges exhibit different judicial behavior depending on the type of appeal being brought to the court,

scholarly journals ‘I felt a noble shock’: James Boswell in German Princely Courts

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Markku Kekäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
The Other ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Positive View ◽  
James Boswell ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
British Court

The article deals with James Boswell’s (1740–1795) attitudes towards the courtly milieu in the context of eighteenth-century British court discourse. The central argument is that, strongly contrary to the anti-court ethos of his intellectual and social milieu, Boswell had an affirmative and enthusiastic attitude towards the court. Moreover, the fact that he was neither an Addisonian moralist ‘spectator’ nor a cynical court aristocrat like Lord Chesterfield, but in many senses a highly affective ‘man of feeling’ of the age, did not diminish the uniqueness of his positive view of court culture. On the one hand, Boswell’s appreciation of the court was connected with his firm monarchism and belief in hereditary rank; on the other hand, he was aesthetically fascinated by the splendour and magnificence of the courtly milieu. His appraisal of the court did not include the common-sense moralism of the moral weeklies or the cynical observations of the  aristocratic court discourse; rather his attitude was immediate, emotional, and enthusiastic in the spirit of the cult of sensibility.

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