Amal Clooney was honored as one of the most notable women in Britain in the Vogue 25, a list that recognizes women doing their part in shaping British society. She posed in a barrister's robe and ...

We've got lawyers, they've got barristers and solicitors. We've got direct testimony, they've got witness statements. But the starkest distinction, of course, are those silly wigs.

Lawyer John Baldwin stood in Courtroom 61 of the Royal Courts of Justice last week, holding his curly white wig in his hands. “Some people think it gives them more authority,” Baldwin s… ...

(Few barristers like these wigs because they're so uncomfortable — itchy and hot and expensive to boot. About 300 years after they were introduced in British courts they're only now starting to ...

But a British barrister, commenting recently on a white-collar criminal trial in the U.S., complained that without wigs and robes it was difficult to determine who was a lawyer and who was a ...

The regulation, which went into effect Thursday, means the horsehair barristers' wigs that typically adorn the heads of most British judges will essentially be extinct in the country's courtrooms ...

Hundreds of British lawyers — many dressed in traditional white curled wigs and black gowns — have swapped courtrooms for picket lines to protest planned cuts to legal aid.

British lawyers' wigs are drawing increasing criticism from some who say they are as quaint and outdated as quill pens or suits of armor. IE 11 is not supported.

Americans can be forgiven for thinking British lawyers and judges, in their silks and wigs, look...well, faintly ridiculous. Not Amal Alamuddin! George Clooney's fiancée is so gorgeous she ...

For centuries, judges and barristers in the United Kingdom have come to court wearing white horsehair wigs and long black gowns. King Charles II started the wig trend in England in the 1660s, after… ...

Digital access Digital + home delivery. British lawyers, judges flip wigs at idea ...