A collection of some of the most famous cases in English law - with an explantion of how they changed things - by two leading commentators. Every UK lawyer knows of Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, the ruling which established the ?golden thread of English law? whereby the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor in a criminal trial, even in the case of murder. But who was ?Woolmington? and how many people know that he escaped the death...