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This is a timeline of some memorable events over the last two centuries. I posted this becuase of the reference to the first person convicted for drunk driving. You may be as surprised as me to learn it was a London Cabbie way back in 1897? lol
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26 February 1993

COPYRIGHT (c) 1993 BUTTERWORTH & CO (PUBLISHERS) LTD

Vol 143 No 6589 p 290

SECTION: BUTTERWORTHS 175TH ANNIVERSARY

175 years of Butterworths and the Social Law -- an informal Calendar

1818: February 25 -- Henry Butterworth establishes the firm at 7 Fleet Street.

1819: The Six Acts increase the penalties for seditious libel and impose a newspaper stamp duty on all periodicals containing news.

1822: The Law Journal is founded

-- Butterworths decline to join six others as members of the Associated Law Booksellers.

1823: The death penalty is abolished for one hundred different crimes.

1829: The Metropolitan Police is founded.

1833: The Factory Act is passed.

1842: Stone's Justices Manual is first published.

-- Peel reintroduces income tax at 7d in the £.

1843: The Law Times is founded.

1846: The Corn Laws are repealed.

1848: The Health Act provides that every new house must have a water closet, privy or ash pit.

1860: Henry Butterworth dies.

1868: The last public execution -- Michael Barrett the Fennian -- takes place outside Newgate prison.

1874: First income tax appeal allowed. Rate now 2d in the £.

1878: John Ruskin loses the libel action brought against him by Whistler, who is awarded a farthing.

1881: Work on the Channel Tunnel at Folkestone is abandoned after half a mile.

1885: The composer, George Butterworth (no relation), is born.

1888: The Local Government Act establishes County Councils.

1891: Mrs Carlill answers an advertisement.

1894: Death Duties are introduced.

1895: Joshua Butterworth, Henry's son, dies. The firm is bought by Shaw & Sons and Stanley Shaw Bond rebuilds it.

1896: Butterworths, ever the innovators, publish The Law of the Motor Car.

1897: George Smith, a London taxi-driver, is the first man to be convicted of drunken driving.

1902: The use of the treadmill is abolished in British prisons.

-- First publication of the 20 volume Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents.

1906: Eleven suffragettes are sent to prison for causing disturbances in Parliament.

1907: Halsbury's Laws of England launched.

1908: The Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act is passed.

-- The Court of Criminal Appeal is founded, following the fiasco of Adolf Beck, who was wrongly convicted twice and served substantial sentences.

1909: Taxes on beer, wines and spirits are lifted because no Budget has been passed.

-- Super-tax introduced.

1911: Butterworths opens offices in Australia.

1912: Butterworths opens offices in Canada.

1914: Butterworths opens offices in New Zealand.

1915: George VI offers to abstain from alcohol to encourage armaments workers to do likewise.

1916: Military Service Act enables conscription.

1918: The Franchise Act grants the vote to (some) women.

1919: The Sex Discrimination (Removal) Act 1919 enables women to be admitted to the professions.

1922: Carrie Morrison is admitted as first woman solicitor in England. Ivy Williams is first woman called to the Bar.

1923: The Matrimonial Causes Act allows wives to divorce adulterous husbands.

-- Lord Alfred Douglas receives six months for libelling Winston Churchill.

-- Agnes Twiston-Hughes is admitted as first woman solicitor in Wales.

1925: Reform of Land Law.

1927: Super-tax becomes surtax.

1928: All women are now enfranchised.

1930: A Bill to abolish Blasphemy as a legal offence is dropped.

1931: First Highway Code issued.

-- Third party insurance becomes compulsory for motorists.

1932: The House of Lords decide on the consequences of snails found in ginger beer bottles.

1934: Butterworths establishes offices in South Africa.

1936: In response to complaints from the Bar that the official reports are too slow, Bond produces the first All England Law Reports.

1939: Outbreak of World War II. Law Journal forms cycling club so that staff may "ride that bicycle in fair weather or foul through bombs from their homes to the office and be punctual on all occasions". It is thought to be unwise to allow girls to join the club.

1942: A pregnant fish-wife gives birth to Bourhill v Young.

1947: Butterworths joins the Publishers Association.

1948: Butterworths enters loose-leaf tax publishing with Simon's Taxes.

1949: Helena Normanbun and Rose Heilbron become first women silks.

1950: Petrol rationing ends.

1956: Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain.

1957: The Rent Act is passed.

1958: The Clean Air Act comes into force.

1959: The Archbishop of Canterbury suggests that adultery be made a criminal offence.

1961: The Betting and Gaming Act comes into force.

1962: Elizabeth Lane QC becomes first woman High Court judge.

1964: Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen are the last two men to be hanged in the United Kingdom.

1965: The Law Times and The Law Journal merge to become the New Law Journal.

-- The Redundancy Payments Act provides graduated payments proportional to length of service.

-- A new Rent Act re-introduces rent control.

-- The Death Penalty is abolished.

-- Jilly Cooper joins Butterworths.

1966: Jilly Cooper leaves Butterworths.

1967: Robert Maxwell and Pergamon Press make take over bid for Butterworths. Butterworths join IPC.

1969: The Divorce Act allows divorce on the grounds of "irretrievable breakdown".

1970: Butterworths Telepublishing founded.

-- IPC taken over by Reed Paper Group.

1972: The Race Relations Act comes into force.

1973: VAT is introduced in Great Britain.

1975: The Sex Discrimination Act comes into force.

1976: Tied farm cottages are abolished by the Agricultural Rent Act.

1977: The first May Day Bank Holiday.

-- Lord Denning opens Butterworths' rebuilt Bell Yard premises.

1980: Lexis launched in UK.

1984: The Police and Criminal Evidence Act guards the rights of suspects.

1985: The Prosecution of Offences Act heralds the introduction of the Crown Prosecution Service.

1986: Workmen and staff report ghosts at 4-5 Bell Yard, site of Lovett's pie shop.

1989: The Poll Tax in introduced.

1992: Reed-Elsevier merger announced.

-- Mrs Barbara Mills becomes the first woman Director of Public Prosecutions.

1993: Butterworths celebrates 175 years of legal publishing.
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Surprised no, over the moon yes.

Ollie

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Happy to be legit.

I wonder who attacked the first woman and tryed to sexualy assault her though?

I guess no surprises there either.

Unlike you, i'm not laughing at your firsts.

But its a trend you've managed to maintain right up until the present day. Trouble is, its not even newsworthy any more when it does happen, its so common.

Since JD started this thread with a legal theme, allow me to end it with the words of another legal professional:





Recorder Michael Sayers QC warned that minicab passengers could not travel "with any degree of safety". As he jailed Razaq Assadullah, a 31-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, for eight years, the Old Bailey judge said that anyone using a minicab had "no assurance that the driver is who he claims to be or has got any insurance, driving licence, etc".

How many minicab drivers are there left?

Living in the past Mr GBC.

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IDFIMH

GBC - last of the Dinosaurs - and we all know what happened to them

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"Where to, Guv'?. Na sorry not going my way"

You missed this one GBC

Minicab rapist jailed
An illegal mini-cab driver has been sentenced to six-years' imprisonment for raping a woman who fell asleep in his car.

Muhammed Abrar was found guilty of rape following a five-day trial.

The Wandsworth Sapphire Unit arrested Abrar thanks to CCTV and DNA evidence.

Abrar had claimed that he had consensual sex with the woman, which the jury rejected unanimously.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

and this one

Minicab rapist jailed for six years
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A brutal rapist snared by his DNA two years after assaulting a 17 year old virgin he had picked up in his bogus minicab was jailed today for six years.

Kevin Kalyan, 26, boasted in police interviews that his car was "an extension of his dick" and referred to his motor as a "disco on wheels".

But DNA taken during a routine traffic police stop showed him to be a wanted sex attacker.

After his victim climbed into what she believed was a minicab in Hounslow High Street in February, 2002, Kalyan, a married father of two, drove off leaving her friend standing by the roadside.

He drove along a secluded lane where he savagely took his victim's virginity.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

bit sad there captain.
are you saying that all ph drivers are rapists and all taxi drivers are staints?
best you take those rose tinted specs off.

Not really Cgull, you'll notice each story had the words illegal or bogus minicab drivers.

I dont have a problem with minicabs being licensed, neither does any sane person.

Do Bolle do rose tinted ones too?

Captain Cab

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

someone a bit nearer to london will confirm there are no more minicabs anymore.
so why mention them.

are you saying 20,000 London cab drivers and the majority of Londoners dont call them minicabs?

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

the minicabs talked about by the juedge and your posts where the unlicensed ones.
even you know they are all licensed now.
dont tar those licensed ph with what happened before.

I wished people would stop calling them "ilegal mini cabs".
They are criminal's impersanating mini cab's.
IF someone wore a police uniform and did a crime, we wouldn't call him a "ilegal policeman", it would be someone impersanating a police officer.
This may sound harsh, but if a woman is stupid enough to get in a car when some says "mini cab" that's her fault.

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stressed controller!!!

Bogus minicab driver is a bit better?

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