By Old Pete
July 20 2014

The Ananswers to Round 6   Look out for the Big Quiz next Week. - More Questions and some new ground rules  

Answers

1.              Where and / or when was trial by jury regularly suspended in the UK    

Diplock courts -  North of Ireland

2.              In terms of the organisation of their law enforcement  agencies  what do Italy , France and Spain have in common.

A national para military police  force – Carabinieri , Gendarmerie ,   -  Guarda Civil

3.              In which British City and when were tanks ( not armoured cars etc – but actual tanks )  deployed to quell rioting.

St Georges Square,  Glasgow 1919.

4.              Which US President courted controversy by suspending Habeas Corpus.  

Lincoln during the Civil War.

5.              In relative terms  many of the court room story lines in the TV drama series  Judge John Deed just couldn’t happen – why ?  

The lady barristers  appearing before him often consist of his former  wife –current mistress and even his daughter  -   the judge would normally be expected  to recuse himself  from presiding in such circumstances.

6.         A dentist from Georgia , a woman with a large nose and a circus trapeze performer suggest which police action at  which  approved location?

Gunfight at the OK corral  - Doc Holliday ; - Big Nose Kate – his girl- friend; –and Wyatt Earp played in the film by   Burt Lancaster a former Circus trapeze artist. 

7.         What links Oliver Cromwell with a fictional American lawman.  

Cromwells cavalry were called Ironsides – Ironside is a fictional ( TV )  American law officer.

8.         What police operation is suggested by a traditional    and often ancient resident of Churchyards

Operation Yew tree – many country Church yards contain an ancient yew tree.

9.         At which  famous trial did   Counsel invoke the sensitivities of wives and servants to further accentuate the heinous nature of the alleged offence.  

“ Is it a book you would have lying around your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read ? "  remarks made by Mr Mervyn Griffiths QC  in his opening address in the trail of  R v Penguin Books on their  publication of an unexpurgated version Lady Chatterley’s Lover

10        In 1969   Noel Coward ended up in prison – how was that ?  

Noel Coward was Mr Bridger the god father of a  crime empire he ran from prison in the 1969  comedy thriller   The Italian Job