The Cases That Changed Our World

Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our lives but which are little known outside the legal world

The Cases That Changed Our World - Episode 1

The dramatic 1670 trial of two Quakers which established the principle that judges cannot intimidate juries, no matter how furious the bench may be.

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The Cases That Changed Our World - Episode 2

The curious saga of the Carbolic Smoke Ball, a bizarre Victorian quack medicine, a case which established important principles about truth in advertising.

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The Cases That Changed Our World - Episode 3

The case of Reginald Woolmington, a young farm labourer who shot his wife dead with a sawn-off gun in 1934. But had he intended to kill, and thus was it murder?

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The Cases That Changed Our World - Episode 4

Clive Coleman revisits Donohue vs Stevenson, better known as The Case of the Paisley Snail, which in 1932 produced the first comprehensive definition of neglect in tort law.

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