Legal Matters: A Victorian Masterpiece Now Too Small for the Job ; Built Almost 110 Years Ago, Birmingham's Victoria Law Courts Is the Busiest Courthouse in Europe and Is Bursting at the Seams. Home Affairs Correspondent Richard Warburton Looks at the History and Significance of One of the City's Most Important Buildings

Birmingham Post › September 29, 2004

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When the then Prince of Wales opened the Victoria Law Courts on July 21, 1891, it was described as the finest modern building in Britain.

Four years earlier Queen Victoria had laid the foundation stone for the building, which was desperately needed to meet the increasing number of court cases as the city grew.

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Legal Matters: A Victorian Masterpiece Now Too Small for the Job ; Built Almost 110 Years Ago, Birmingham's Victoria Law Courts Is the Busiest Courthouse in Europe and Is Bursting at the Seams. Home Affairs Correspondent Richard Warburton Looks at the History and Significance of One of the City's Most Important Buildings

At a cost of pounds 90,000 - pounds 12,000 more than original estimates - the courts were an example of the very best in Victorian architecture and...

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