Monday 26 June 2023
Professor Sir John Baker KC LLD FBA (Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England and an Inner Temple Bencher) and His Honour Donald Cryan (Hon) LLD (Inner Temple Bencher and former Treasurer).
Education
- The Future of Education & Training at the Inn
- Call to the Bar
- International Practice Panel
- Munich – Why?
- 1500-2023 - Snapshots of The Inner Temple Library
- Dr Ivy Williams, An Enduring Inspiration to Women Lawyers
- Gilds and Things
- The History of The Inner Temple through its Treasures
- Human Rights in Britain and France: From Thomas Becket to the French Revolution
- Law in a Time of Plague - Was the Law a Good Doctor
- Lawyers and Diplomats
- The Selden Society: John Selden and Legal History
- The Selden Society: The Fire Courts
- The Smirkes and The Inner Temple
- Sub-Treasurers of The Inner Temple
- Treasures from the Library
- William Crashawe's Library
- Master H Meets...Again
- Have We "Had Enough of Experts"?
- Race and the Legal Profession
- The Bar of Ireland, Brexit and the Common Law
- The Executive and the Courts in the Constitution
- The Future for Regulation of the UK Public Markets
- Forensic Identification from the Hand
- Giving Judges a Voice in Democracies
- How the Law Should Respond to External Crises Such as COVID-19
- Lawyer or Politician: What is the Attorney General?
- Memory as Evidence
- Politics and the Law
- Previous Lecture Series and Speakers
- Proof in International Criminal Trials
- 'Sales' on Retention of Title Terms
- Show me the money!
- Sport - Law and Ethics
- Calling It Out: Professionals, their Regulators, Equity and Fairness
- Experts: Love or Loath? The Involvement of Experts in Legal Proceedings
- A Public Health Approach to Equality Law
- Forensic Document Examination - The Science Today
- The History of the Law Officers
- The Absolute Ban on Assisted Dying and Lessons from Canada
- Brain Imaging as Evidence
- The Limits of Fiduciary Rules
- The Predicament and Agency of Refugees
- The Role of the Medical Examiner
- The Wild and Ridiculous Doctrine of Equality
- What Does It Mean to Be Anti-Racist in a Profession Full of Privileged People?
- Assisted Dying
- Asylum and Immigration: Do Sovereign Island Nations have a Duty to Provide Refuge?
- AI: Risks and Benefits
- Do Magnitsky Type Sanctions Develop the Rule of Law?
- Is Our Adversarial System Fit for Purpose?
- Ukraine War: Peace-making Ahead – Traditional Methods of Accountability or New Solutions?
- Is it Better to Review or Monitor Terror Laws? The UK and Australian Positions Compared
- Britain's Unwritten Constitution
- The Crime of Ecocide
- Global Responses to the Forcibly Displaced
- Does the Bar Need to Communicate and Market Itself More in the Modern World?
- Is Anything More Needed to Ensure Freedom of Speech?
- Is There a Case for Anonymity in Social Media?
- Is the Presumption of Innocence Alive and Well?
- Peace vs Justice
- Prison Reform
- Should UK Judges and ex-Judges Be Sitting in Hong Kong?
- Should our Constitution Protect Against Party Elected Leaders?
- The Rule of Law in Times of International Conflict
- Special Gandhi Lecture
- What Does a Master of the Bench Do?
- Frequently asked questions
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Treasures from the Library
The Inn is the custodian of some of the most important and intriguing documents in our national and legal history. Professor Sir John Baker will explore three from the collection:
- The medieval Clifford’s Inn triptych, comes from the dawn of formal legal education in England. Within also lies the earliest regulations for students in any of the legal Inns.
- The earliest coloured pictures of English law courts in action. They are a landmark in the history of English secular art and date from around 1450.
- In 1553 the boy King Edward VI wrote ‘My devise for the succession’ in which he sought to change the order of succession to the throne contrary to the will of Henry VIII, excluding Mary and Elizabeth, but only resulting in the death of Lady Jane Grey.
History Society Lecture
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Slides
![Clifford’s Inn hall](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_01-849x448.jpg)
![Clifford’s Inn hall](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_01-290x172.jpg)
![Skrene Window](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_02-849x448.jpg)
![Skrene Window](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_02-290x172.jpg)
![The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn triptych – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_03-849x448.jpg)
![The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn triptych – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_03-290x172.jpg)
![Detail – The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn triptych – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_04-849x448.jpg)
![Detail – The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn triptych – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_04-290x172.jpg)
![Detail The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn (column 1) – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_05-849x448.jpg)
![Detail The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn (column 1) – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_05-290x172.jpg)
![Detail – The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn (statute 8) – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_06-849x448.jpg)
![Detail – The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn (statute 8) – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_06-290x172.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Common Pleas [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_07-849x448.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Common Pleas [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_07-290x172.jpg)
![Serjeant Pigot’s manuscript featuring Edward VI – The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 10, CC-BY-NC 4.0.](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_08-849x448.jpg)
![Serjeant Pigot’s manuscript featuring Edward VI – The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 10, CC-BY-NC 4.0.](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_08-290x172.jpg)
![Mayor of Bristol’s Calendar by Robert Ricaut, town clerk](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_09-849x448.jpg)
![Mayor of Bristol’s Calendar by Robert Ricaut, town clerk](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_09-290x172.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Common Pleas [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_10-849x448.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Common Pleas [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_10-290x172.jpg)
![Chief Justice Prysot](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_11-849x448.jpg)
![Chief Justice Prysot](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_11-290x172.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of King’s Bench [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_12-849x448.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of King’s Bench [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_12-290x172.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court Exchequer [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_13-849x448.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court Exchequer [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_13-290x172.jpg)
![Chief Baron Arderne](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_14-849x448.jpg)
![Chief Baron Arderne](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_14-290x172.jpg)
![Apprentice of the Law](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_15-849x448.jpg)
![Apprentice of the Law](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_15-290x172.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Chancery [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_16-849x448.jpg)
![Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Chancery [Misc. Ms 188]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_16-290x172.jpg)
![King Edward VI – after Hans Holbein the Younger – oil on panel, circa 1542 NPG 1132](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_17-849x448.jpg)
![King Edward VI – after Hans Holbein the Younger – oil on panel, circa 1542 NPG 1132](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_17-290x172.jpg)
![Edward VI ‘Devise for the succession’. Inner Temple Library (Petyt Ms. 538.47, fol. 317)](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_18-849x448.jpg)
![Edward VI ‘Devise for the succession’. Inner Temple Library (Petyt Ms. 538.47, fol. 317)](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_18-290x172.jpg)
![Detail of alteration Edward VI ‘Devise for the succession’. Inner Temple Library (Petyt Ms. 538.47, fol. 317)](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_19-849x448.jpg)
![Detail of alteration Edward VI ‘Devise for the succession’. Inner Temple Library (Petyt Ms. 538.47, fol. 317)](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_19-290x172.jpg)
![Signature’s of Edward’s Privy Council supporting the ‘devise’ – Inner Temple Library [Petyt MS 538 vol.47 f.316]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_20-849x448.jpg)
![Signature’s of Edward’s Privy Council supporting the ‘devise’ – Inner Temple Library [Petyt MS 538 vol.47 f.316]](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_20-290x172.jpg)
![Montagu](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_21-849x448.jpg)
![Montagu](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_21-290x172.jpg)
![Lady-Jane-Grey](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_22-849x448.jpg)
![Lady-Jane-Grey](https://www.innertemple.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Treasures-from-the-Library-slides-26-06-2023_Page_22-290x172.jpg)
Cliffords Inn Hall ©Prof Sir John Baker
Skrene Window @The Inner Temple
The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn triptych – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19] @The Inner Temple
Detail - The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn triptych – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19] @The Inner Temple
Detail The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn (column 1) – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19] @The Inner Temple
Detail - The Statutes of Clifford’s Inn (statute 8) – Inner Temple Library [Misc. MS 19] @The Inner Temple
Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Common Pleas [Misc. Ms 188] @The Inner Temple
Serjeant Pigot’s manuscript featuring Edward VI - The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 10, CC-BY-NC 4.0.
Mayor of Bristol’s Calendar by Robert Ricaut, town clerk
Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Common Pleas [Misc. Ms 188] @The Inner Temple
Chief Justice Prysot
Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of King’s Bench [Misc. Ms 188] @The Inner Temple
Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court Exchequer [Misc. Ms 188] @The Inner Temple
Chief Baron Arderne, Latton ©Prof Sir John Baker
Apprentice of the Law, John Edward 1461, Rodmarton ©Prof Sir John Baker
Courts at Westminster c.1460. The Court of Chancery [Misc. Ms 188] @The Inner Temple
King Edward VI, after Hans Holbein the Younger - oil on panel, circa 1542 - NPG 1132
Edward VI ‘Devise for the succession’. Inner Temple Library (Petyt Ms. 538.47, fol. 317) @The Inner Temple
Detail of alteration: Edward VI ‘Devise for the succession’. Inner Temple Library (Petyt Ms. 538.47, fol. 317) @The Inner Temple
Signature’s of Edward’s Privy Council supporting the ‘devise’ - Inner Temple Library [Petyt MS 538 vol.47 f.316] @The Inner Temple
Montagu CJ ©Prof Sir John Baker
Lady Jane Grey by Unknown artist oil on oak panel, circa 1590-1600 - NPG 6804