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Hi Lisa,
Thanks for replying. Its much appreciated.

We're going to focus on the cases. Dickens was a plaintiff and a defendant in Chancery. I want to represent those cases in the museum as evidence of the relationship between the author and the local solicitor who set up in London at the time. Dickens vouched for Thomas Mitton to join the practice of Charles Smithson (the solicitor concerned) and they were involved in the cases mentioned.

I need to find a way of making that visual and interesting. I am planning to extend the information online with other links. One way I have in mind is to use the You Be The Judge idea on the government web site. That might be a way for presenting the cases in the building and online. I'm still keen to find alternatives.

I certainly hear your comments about the lack of legal knowledge of people doing this kind of thing. Fortunately my wife was a solicitor and we know a couple of barristers who are supportive. We still don't know enough about copyright law & related laws (Christmas Carol) and shared assets (Household Words). These are different work-packages in the project. We're inching forward a bit at a time.

Thanks again either way. I'm grateful.

Best Wishes,
Nick

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Dr. Nicholas Bowskill, SFHEA,
Lecturer in Education (UDOL)
University of Derby,
Kedleston Road,
Derby

Workshop: Student-Generated Induction: A Social Identity Approach, University of London,Thursday 1st December 2016: http://bit.ly/2eTTSa9 


Nicholas Bowskill is a former Kelvin-Smith Scholar at University of Glasgow. Nicholas is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is lead tutor for SEDA online workshop on Introduction to Educational Change and Lecturer in Education (UDOL) at University of Derby. SharedThinking is an independent consultancy.


On 12 November 2016 at 15:59, Lisa peat field <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Nicholas 

Do you want to visually depict one of the cases that the Malton solicitor actually conducted for Dickens? Or simply represent the Victorian court system? 

Dickens was of course famously scathing about the courts in Bleak House, exemplified by the long running Jarndyce v Jarndyce case so that could be a general way in  : slowly diminishing pots of money transferring from the trust to the lawyers etc. 

I used to be a solicitor and one general point I would make is that people generally in my experience have very little understanding about our system of law, for example that criminal cases are brought by the state in the name of the queen and civil cases are brought by private individuals and organisations against each other. Innocent until proven guilty is a concept many people seem to struggle with! Might be something to bear in mind. 

Best 

Lisa 

On 12 Nov 2016, at 15:26, Nicholas Bowskill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Pauline,
Thank you for some wonderful ideas. That's already given me some different ways of thinking and approaching the task. The museum is in Malton, North Yorkshire. Its a 2-roomed Victorian solicitors office who was friends with Dickens and the author was also a client. 

Its currently run by 2 senior people who are keen to retire. I have offered to take it over and re-point it in January ready to re-open in Easter. 

One thing I am happy to do is to acknowledge your input and that of anyone else on the web site. Its not a payment but it could include links to your site etc. 

My aim is to get it to a mid-point wherein its completely re-themed and then to seek sponsorship. With that money I aim to do a second phase to further enhance it with tech/interaction etc. Sponsors will be acknowledged in the museum and online.

I'm getting the content together with help from local people in the know. I just need to think about low/no budget ideas for representing it all visually. Thank you again for your ideas.
 

Best Wishes,
Nick

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Dr. Nicholas Bowskill, SFHEA,
Lecturer in Education (UDOL)
University of Derby,
Kedleston Road,
Derby

Workshop: Student-Generated Induction: A Social Identity Approach, University of London,Thursday 1st December 2016: http://bit.ly/2eTTSa9 


Nicholas Bowskill is a former Kelvin-Smith Scholar at University of Glasgow. Nicholas is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is lead tutor for SEDA online workshop on Introduction to Educational Change and Lecturer in Education (UDOL) at University of Derby. SharedThinking is an independent consultancy.


On 12 November 2016 at 15:09, Pauline Ridley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Nick - What an interesting question! There are some examples here http://www.openlawlab.com/project-topics/illustrated-law-visualizations/ and here

 I should think a Google search would throw up several more UK based examples but it might also be worth contacting your nearest university graphic design course and getting them to set this as a student project ? And/or involving local schools - I would think discussing cases and thinking how to represent them as timelines, flow charts or - even better - comic strips would be a great exercise in citizenship for kids of almost any age? 

Where is the museum? 

Best wishes
Pauline
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Pauline Ridley


On 12 Nov 2016, at 14:53, Nicholas Bowskill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Gemmers,
I'm wondering if anyone has seen good examples of a display for a historical court case. 

I'm shortly due to take over a local Dickens-related museum (otherwise it is set to close). I'm going to re-theme it to become Dickens and the Law. It will be centred upon the legal profession as a bridge between a local solicitor and Dickens. They were friends and the local solicitors practice represented Dickens in Chancery for copyright cases etc. 

We are entirely run by volunteers. Nobody gets paid. If we can make the transformation we hope to get sponsorship and then be able to consider buying in a bit of help.

We are looking for a way of visually representing a legal case and wonder if you've seen any good examples that might be easily replicated. Any suggestions? The only examples I've seen are at the american museum of tort law.

Best Wishes,
Nick

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Dr. Nicholas Bowskill, SFHEA,
Lecturer in Education (UDOL)
University of Derby,
Kedleston Road,
Derby

Workshop: Student-Generated Induction: A Social Identity Approach, University of London,Thursday 1st December 2016: http://bit.ly/2eTTSa9 


Nicholas Bowskill is a former Kelvin-Smith Scholar at University of Glasgow. Nicholas is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is lead tutor for SEDA online workshop on Introduction to Educational Change and Lecturer in Education (UDOL) at University of Derby. SharedThinking is an independent consultancy.

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