HM Courts and Tribunals published the list of confiscated items at Central Criminal Court in London under Freedom of Information laws. It included 13 knives, a blade and a meat skewer.

3. Justice is not blind. The 22-ton, 3.5m tall figure of Lady Justice is the Old Bailey's crowning glory — clutching the sword of retribution in her right hand, and the scales of justice in the ...

Today, the Old Bailey tries around 1,500 cases a year with more than 1,200 jurors a month serving. Court clerk Robin Shrimpton, 62, is the court's longest-serving member of staff.

For nearly 500 years the Old Bailey has been one of the world’s most famous criminal courts, ... 22-tonne bronze statue of Justice holding a sword and scales. Inside, ...