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Law, Judges and Visual Culture by Leslie J Moran. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, 260 pp (£120 hardback; £33.29 e book) ISBN: 978-1-13-861861-9

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Law, Judges and Visual Culture by Leslie J Moran. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, 260 pp (£120 hardback; £33.29 e book) ISBN: 978-1-13-861861-9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2022

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Legal Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 546 - 549
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society of Legal Scholars

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1 Sir George Essex Honyman (1819–1875) was a commercial lawyer and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Robert Rinder is a barrister, and star of Judge Rinder, an arbitration-based reality TV court programme.

2 Moran, LJ Law, Judges and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2020) p 1CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Moran, LJ ‘Judicial pictures as legal life – writing data and a research method’ (2015) 42(1) Journal of Law and Society 74CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Including Moran, LJ ‘“Every picture tells a story” – picturing judicial biography’ (2014) 14(1) Legal Information Management 14CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Moran, LJ ‘A previously unexplored encounter: the English judiciary, carte De visite and photography as a form of mass media’ (2018) 14 International Journal of Law in Context 539CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Moran's work ranges from examination and discussion of identity politics and law, to hate crime, and, latterly, law and visual culture. He has carried out research over several years on law and visual culture and his earlier work is expanded in this book.

6 Moran, above n 2, p 1.

7 J Bentham ‘Draft organisation of judicial establishments, compared with that of the National Assembly [of France], with a commentary on the same’ (1790) in J Bowring (ed) The Works of Jeremy Bentham (1843) p 381.

8 They may have been emboldened by the enthusiasm of the monarch. Queen Victoria and the Royal family both collected, and were portrayed, on cartes de visite.

9 Moran, above n 2, p 87.

10 Moran, above n 2, p 81.

11 Published by the London Stereoscopic Company.

12 Moran, above n 2, p 109.

13 Criminal Justice Act 1925, s 41. The chapters draw upon scholarship from film and media studies.

14 Constitutional Reform Act 2005. The Crown Court (Recording and Broadcasting) Order 2020, SI 2020/637, allows judges' sentencing remarks to be broadcast. High Court and Senior Circuit judges sitting in the Crown Court can be filmed if permission is obtained from the judiciary in advance.

15 Moran, above n 2, p 195.

16 Moran, LJ ‘Legal studies after the cultural turn: a case study of judicial research’ in Roseneil, S and Frosh, S (eds) Social Research after the Cultural Turn (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)Google Scholar.

17 Although Rinder is a barrister and not a judge.

18 Moran, above n 2, ch 3.

19 Ibid, ch 9.

20 Ibid, photograph of Lord Phillips recto Contents page.

21 Ibid, carte de visite in ch 4.

22 Moran, above n 2, p 2.