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Topical Budget 268-2: Opening of the Law Courts (1916)
 

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"OPENING OF THE LAW COURTS. Judges, King's Counsel and officers of the Supreme Court attend a special service at Westminster Abbey". Procession of the Lord Chancellor leaves the Abbey. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Buckmaster) enters a carriage and is driven off with police escort. Other judges leaving. More judges and officials, all in state robes, leaving the Abbey.