We are pleased to announce a celebrity addition to the roll of fellow gavellers this week, and one active in our cause. The fine actor Samuel West revealed on Twitter that, during filming of the BBC historico-legal drama Garrow’s Law, he raised an, erm, objection to the use of a gavel on the bench.
@JackofKent I was in an ep of Garrow’s Law where the judge had a gavel and I had to tell them that. But the gavel stayed, unfortunately.
— Samuel West (@exitthelemming) August 3, 2015(There is a gavel on this bench: it’s somewhere under the amazing fancy dress full bottom wig upon His Lordship, there)
Thanks to another top fellow gaveller, Jack of Kent, for persuading Mr West to follow us.
@JackofKent @igavels No! Followed! Single-issue politics ahoy!
— Samuel West (@exitthelemming) August 3, 2015Ahoy indeed. The subject of his original tweet also prompted a bit of gavel appeasement in the Law Society Gazette.
We say yes, of course it does. If people are to understand the legal system they should understand it as it is. Fictional props help no-one’s understanding.