In his academic role, he advised the judge Lord Denman in the important parliamentary privilege case of Stockdale v. Hansard.[3] As counsel to Mrs Swinfen, the plaintiff in the celebrated will case Swinfen v. Swinfen (1856), he brought an action for remuneration for professional services, but the verdict given in his favour at Warwickassizes was set aside by the court of Common Pleas, on the ground that a barrister could not sue for the recovery of his fees.[4][2]
Works
New Rules for Pleading (2nd ed., 1841)
Poems, Original and Selected (1843)
A Treatise on Annuities (1846)
Works of Virgil, in blank verse, written in conjunction with his father (2 vols., 1850)
Specimens of Greek and Latin Verse (1853)
Orations of Demosthenes, translated into English, with notes, appendices, etc. (5 vols., 1841–63, in Bohn's Classical Library)
^"Kennedy, Charles Rann (KNDY827CR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ a bChisholm 1911.
^Pue (1990) p.62
^[Anon.] (1911)
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kennedy, Benjamin Hall s.v. Charles Rann Kennedy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 731.
— rev. E. Metcalfe (2004) "Kennedy, Charles Rann (1808–1867)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 8 February 2008 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Pue, W. W. (1990). "Moral panic at the English Bar: Paternal vs. commercial ideologies of legal practice in the 1860s". Law and Social Inquiry. 15 (1): 49–118. doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.1990.tb00275.x. S2CID 145788677.
Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A., eds. (1879). "Kennedy, Benjamin Hall" . The American Cyclopædia.
External links
Works by or about Charles Rann Kennedy at Wikisource