04 Apr More Signs of the Apocalypse: Brit Barristers Consider Getting Rid of Their Wigs
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The Washington Post reports there is a move to get rid of the traditional wig for barristers. Indeed, one of the arguments is that Brit judges look “silly” when they sit in the Hague “amid colleagues from other European countries, …[and] struggle to fasten headphones over fake curls to listen to translations.” The Europeanization of Britain continues apace…
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If you look in the latest Law Quarterly Review, Lady Mance has something to say on that ‘Europeanisation’.
As does Adrian Briggs in the previous volume!
Neither is rapt – notably, Adrian is a late-comer to the euroscepticism party, if indeed he has come.