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Sir Edward Marshall Hall, KC (16 September 1858 – 24 February 1927) was an English barrister who had a formidable reputation as an orator. He successfully defended many people accused of notorious murders and became known as "The Great Defender".
Sir Edward Marshall Hall (1858-1927) was the most celebrated legal figure of his era in England as the defense attorney for a large number of sensational murder trials that featured in British tabloids during the Edwardian era.
Jul 7, 2019 · Edward Marshall Hall was already known as a formidable advocate before his extraordinary defence of Ronald Light Instead he focused on the lack of obvious motive and absence of...
May 5, 2015 · The barrister as thespian was emerging. With the advent of the popular press such men would become celebrities. The role was tailor-made for a showman, and none mastered it better than the tall, handsome young Rugby and Cambridge man, Edward Marshall Hall, who in 1882 was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple.
Dec 31, 2014 · Listen to five dramatised cases of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, a famous barrister in Victorian England. John Mortimer introduces and narrates the stories, based on true events and trials.
Shadow of the Noose is a BBC television legal drama serial about the life and career of barrister Sir Edward Marshall Hall. It starred Jonathan Hyde as Marshall Hall; Michael Feast as his clerk, Edgar Bowker; Leslee Udwin as Henriette Marshall Hall; and Terry Taplin as solicitor Arthur Newton.
Hall, Sir Edward Marshall (1858–1929). Hall was one of the greatest English advocates and a legend in his own time and since. He enjoyed, at the height of his powers, the sort of reputation and glamour in the eyes of the public later enjoyed by actors and film stars.
