The General System.--Different Courts.--Rules of Practice Made by Lord Chancellor.--Juries, Common and Special.--Judges and How Appointed.--Judges' Pay.--Costs. Court Notes.--Some Differences in English and American Methods. IX. COURTS OF APPEAL 107 The Court of Appeal.--House of Lords.--Divisional Court.--Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. X. MASTERS--THE TIME SAVERS 117 Current Hearings.--Minor Issues Threshed out. XI. THE POLICE COURTS 125 Current Hearings. XII. THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT--THE OLD BAILEY 131 Current Trials XIII. AN IMPORTANT MURDER TRIAL 145 XIV. LITIGATION ARISING OUTSIDE OF LONDON 169 Local Solicitors.--Solicitors' "Agency Business." --The Circuits and Assizes.--Local Barristers. --The County Courts.--The Registrar's Court. XV. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND CONCLUSION 177 INDEX 195 ILLUSTRATIONS THE CORRIDORS OF THE COURTS _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE CROSSING THE STRAND FROM TEMPLE TO COURT 36 A JURY TRIAL 100 A SUBJECT FOR THE POLICE COURT 128 THE SENTENCING OF DHINGRA 156 SIDEWALK SOCIALISM--HYDE PARK 178 A PHILADELPHIA LAWYER IN THE LONDON COURTS CHAPTER I FIRST IMPRESSIONS THE LAW COURTS BUILDING ON THE STRAND--A COURT ROOM--PARTICIPANTS IN A TRIAL--WIGS AND GOWNS --COLLOQUIAL METHODS--AGREEABLE VOICES-- SIMILARITY TO AMERICAN TRIALS. Leaving the busy Strand at Temple Bar and entering the Law Courts Building, one plunges into that teeming hive where the disputes of millions of British subjects are settled by law. Here the whole kingdom begins and ends its legal battles--except the cases on circuit, those minor matters which go to the County Courts, and the very few which reach the House of Lords.