1. By signing the Convention, Britain has an obligation to refrain from acts which would defeat the objects and purposes of the Convention; ratifying the treaty would demonstrate an intent to incorporate the Convention into the country’s legal system.
2. per Pill LJ in Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Hicks [2006] EWCA Civ 400, para 32
3. Act IV, scene 4, line 1, Troilus and Cressida
4.The Labour MP, Mr Eliot Morley, was expelled from the Privy Council in 2011 after his conviction and imprisonment for offences relating to fraudulent claims for parliamentary expenses. Other disgraced MPs have voluntarily resigned from the Privy Council: Mr John Profumo (1963), Mr John Stonehouse (1976) and Mr Jonathan Aitken (1997).
5. Rhymes with ‘turkeys’.
6.The deepest of the Underground tunnels were 221 feet below Hampstead Heath.
7.The Marconi scandal arose in 1912 from allegations of corruption in the acquisition by members of Asquith’s Cabinet through insider dealings of shares in the Marconi Wireless Company, the intended recipient of a lucrative Government contract.
8.Written in 1914 by the poet Ernst Lissauer, for which he was decorated by the Kaiser
9.‘This was the most unkindest cut of all’, Julius Caesar, III, 2, 181. Edgar knew his Shakespeare.
10.The King v Sir Edgar Speyer and The King v Sir Ernest Cassel. On appeal as The King, at the relation of Sir George Makgill, Bt v Speyer.
11.legal standing.
12.‘I keep on hoping as long as there is breath in me’, a punning reference to Edgar’s surname.
13.In May 1922, five months after the Speyer hearings, Bottomley was tried before Mr Justice Salter at the Old Bailey and convicted on 23 counts of fraudulent conversion. The judge sentenced him to seven years’ penal servitude.
14.‘striving upwards towards the sun’ – Virgil, Aeneid, II, 475
15.Many of the titles listed under primary sources are valuable secondary sources in their own right.
16. Photocopies of many of these documents may be consulted in the Archive of the Middle Temple.