Sir Frederick Horace Lawton was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Justice of Appeal from 1972 to 1986.
The Old Bailey remains the venue of the most high-profile trials locally and nationally
Royal Courts of Justice house the Court of Appeal and within its Victorian, neo-gothic, walls housed most of London's senior civil courts in this era
Guenther Fritz Erwin Podola was a German-born petty thief, and the last man to be hanged in the UK for killing a police officer. His trial was notable and controversial because of his defence of amnesia and the use of expert witnesses to determine whether his illness was real.
Podola in 1959