Law Portal selected content
This page lists some of the best pictures related to WikiProject Law. The images are also listed in the category Category:Law Portal selected pictures. The entries are randomly chosen for display on the Law Portal.
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Photograph taken by the US Government and modified by Beao
The defendants sitting in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials.
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Photograph taken by Steve Petteway for the US Government
John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States since 2005
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Image by unknown photographer; uploaded by Cliniic
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Chief Justice John Marshall (1755 – 1835), an American statesman and jurist who greatly influenced constitutional law
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Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is the highest court of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, having the ultimate judicial authority within Puerto Rico to interpret and decide questions of local commonwealth law. It is head of the Judicial Branch of the Government of Puerto Rico, the other branches being the executive branch and the legislative branch. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico holds its sessions in the city of San Juan.
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Credit: A manuscript held at the British Library
A copy of the Magna Carta of 1215, which was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects (the barons) in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. Lord Denning described it as "the greatest constitutional document of all times – the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot".
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Credit: Hans Holbein the Younger
Thomas More was a leading counsellor to Henry VIII and served as Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. He was imprisoned and beheaded in 1535 after he had fallen out of favour with the king over his refusal to sign the Act of Supremacy 1534.
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Credit: Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin
An illustration of a criminal trial at the Old Bailey in the early 19th century
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Credit: Wenceslaus Hollar
Robert Heath, who served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1631–1634 and Lord Chief Justice 1642–1645
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Credit: Leslie Ward ("Spy") in Vanity Fair (1879)
Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls 1873–1883, captioned as "The Law"
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Credit: Bencherlite
Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2008 to 2013
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Credit: Work and Pensions Office
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Credit: David Henry Friston
An 1875 illustration of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Trial by Jury
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Credit: Nevilley
The Old Bailey, officially called the Central Criminal Court – the figure of Justice on the top is not blindfolded, contrary to common belief.
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Credit: Unknown artist
Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), lawyer and author of Commentaries on the Laws of England
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Credit: Beatrice Lock
Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), Cambridge professor and leading legal historian