By two-thirty that afternoon, the battle shifted to the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in Central London. The imposing Victorian Gothic cathedral of law rose with majestic stone arches, soaring stained-glass windows, and vaulted marble halls where British common law had been administered for over seven centuries. Inside Courtroom 14 of the Queen's Bench Division, Mr. Justice Thornton presided from his elevated mahogany bench beneath the Royal Coat…
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