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- DictionaryOld Bailey/əʊldˈbeɪli/
- 1. the Central Criminal Court in London, formerly standing in an ancient bailey of the London city wall. The present court was built in 1903–6 on the site of Newgate Prison.
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The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales.
Oct 5, 2024 · Old Bailey, the byname of the Central Criminal Court in London, is perhaps the best known of several buildings housing the Crown Court, which handles the most serious criminal offenses in England and Wales.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Known as the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, is one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court. Behind its dignified façade the Old Bailey is a centre...
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- The History and Business of The Old Bailey
- Records of Trials Heard Before 1972
Use this guide for advice on how to find the records of trials held at the Old Bailey, later known as the Central Criminal Court, as well as records of prisoners and convicts tried and held there. This guide will help you to understand: 1. The types of cases heard by the Court. 2. The records created, what has survived, and the sorts of information...
The Old Bailey is a criminal court sitting in central London. Since 1834 it is properly referred to as the Central Criminal Court, but its former name, derived from the building in which it sits, remains that by which it is more commonly known. From 1834 to 1971 the Old Bailey was Assize Court for London, in 1972 the Old Bailey became one of the Cr...
3.1 Printed and published materials – transcripts and proceedings
The easiest place to start your research, and the richest potential source of information on specific trials, will be found in printed proceedings and accounts. Old Bailey online and online newspaper accounts are a useful way to establish if a trial was held at the Old Bailey or in another court. Other, similar, sources of information include:
3.2 Finding other trial records at The National Archives
A search for trial records held at The National Archives will require a visit to our reading rooms in Kew as none of the records are viewable online – though you can begin your search in our online catalogue. Different stages or aspects of the trial process are recorded in different types of documents, each of which will typically have been archived separately and may be searched by different means. The key document types/series are set out below.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913. A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,752 trials held at London's central criminal court, and 475 Ordinary’s Accounts of the lives of executed convicts.
Aug 2, 2016 · The Old Bailey: a name that usually crops up in tabloid tales of scandal, shame and slaughter. If you've ever visited, hopefully it was from the public gallery or jury box....
5 days ago · The Old Bailey—that part of the street opposite to Newgate—became the scene of public executions in 1783, on the 9th of December in which year the first culprit suffered here the extreme penalty of the law. Before that time the public executions ordinarily took place at Tyburn.
