Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The sessions were location at Hicks Hall, St John Street, Clerkenwell from 1601, with the April and October sessions taking place at Westminster Hall. A new Middlesex Sessions House was opened at Clerkenwell Green in 1780. The area of the Middlesex sessions was reduced in 1889 when the County of London Quarter Sessions were created.
The Westminster Quarters, from its use at the Palace of Westminster, is a melody used by a set of four quarter bells to mark each quarter-hour. It is also known as the Westminster Chimes , Cambridge Quarters , or Cambridge Chimes , from its place of origin, the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge .
Detail of the façade. The site on the south-western corner of Parliament Square was originally the belfry of Westminster Abbey. [7] The first guildhall, designed as an octagon with a Doric portico by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, was built for the justices of the City and Liberty of Westminster and opened as the "Westminster Sessions House" or "Westminster Guildhall" in 1805.
Devizes Assize Court, Northgate Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England. The assizes (/ ə ˈ s aɪ z ɪ z /), or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court.
The court records held at The London Archives are dominated by one of the finest collection of quarter session records known to exist in the country. The records of the Middlesex and Westminster sessions cover both the judicial and administrative functions of the justices of the peace covering the period 1549–1971.
The building was commissioned to replace Hicks Hall as the courthouse for the Middlesex Quarter Sessions: Hicks Hall had opened in 1612 and had stepped into many of the lesser functions of the Old Bailey before being demolished in 1782. [2] The Sessions House was designed by Thomas Rogers in the classical style and completed in 1782.
The office of the clerk of the peace originated in England and is lost in antiquity. It is referred to in 34 Edw. 3.c. 1 (1361) [clarification needed] as an office occupied by a person who draws indictments, arraigns prisoners, joins issue for the Crown, enters judgments, awards their process and makes up and keeps records in respect of proceedings before justices assembled in quarter sessions ...
The quarter sessions in each county were made up of two or more justices of the peace, presided over by a chairman, who sat with a jury. County boroughs and other boroughs entitled to their own quarter sessions had a single recorder instead of a bench of justices. [3]: 121 Every court of quarter sessions had a clerk called the clerk of the peace.