At the beginning of the Carolinian era, when Charles I ascended the throne, the inn continued to prosper. Only 43 students were admitted during the four years of the war, and none were admitted to the bar. [39] Boarding sessions resumed after the Battle of Marston Moor, but the education system remained inactive. Although the readers were named, no one read and no point of contention was held. [40] In 1646, after the end of the war, attempts were made to restore the old system of reading and pleading, and in 1647 it was ordered that students should discuss at least once a day. [41] This did not work because readers refused to read and the old legal education system died out completely. [42] At the heart of Gray`s was the shared system in the Inns of Court for obtaining a bar appointment, which lasted approximately 12 to 14 years. A student first studied at Oxford or the University of Cambridge, or at one of the Inns of Chancery, which were specialized legal training institutions. While studying at Oxford or Cambridge, he worked to obtain a degree for three years and was admitted to one of the Inns of Court after graduation.[26] If he studied at one of the Inns of Chancery, he did so for a year before applying for admission to the Inn of Court to which his Inn of Chancery was linked – in the case of Gray`s Inn, the Inns of Chancery affiliated were Staple Inn and Barnard`s Inn. [27] During this period, a regular system of legal education was established. In the early days of the Inn, the quality of legal education had been poor – readings were rarely given and bar admission standards were low and diverse. These men needed the rudiments, but not the refinements of the common law. The same was true for the large class of lawyers and a growing class of accountants and correspondents.
They acquired most of their knowledge through a chancery inn, a training institution in drafting documents and other legal documents used in the firm`s courts. Gray`s Inn was the smallest of the inns in the early 20th century and was known for its connection to the Northern Circuit. [57] At an Allied conference during World War I in 1918, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the future leaders of the Western Allies during World War II, met here. During World War II, the inn was severely damaged during the lightning of 1941, striking and almost destroying the hall, chapel, library and many other buildings.[58] The reconstruction of a large part of the inn lasted until 1960[2] by the architect Sir Edward Maufe. [59] In 2008, Gray`s Inn was the first Inn to appoint fellows – elected businessmen, jurists and others – with the aim of giving them a broader perspective and education than other hostels. [60] Since the law was highly technical, master`s degree could only be acquired through the demanding studies of inns. In practice, therefore, hostels had a monopoly on the teaching of law. However, in the 15th and 16th centuries, many students joined inns to receive a general education rather than a legal education.
Towards the end of the 16th century. In the nineteenth century, the Inns of Court had begun to exclude lawyers and lawyers and refused to call them as lawyers, so lawyers in particular resorted to the Inns of Chancery and eventually formed a profession different from that of lawyer. Inns of Court, London, a group of four institutions of considerable antiquity historically responsible for the teaching of law. Their respective governing bodies, judges, exercise the exclusive right to admit persons to the bar by means of a formal appeal. They consist of the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple (both in the area known as The Temple), Lincoln`s Inn and Gray`s Inn, all located near the Royal Courts of Justice on the border between the City of London and Westminster. Inns of Court are voluntary, unincorporated and unregistered societies. Therefore, their early history is unclear. Since their inception in the Middle Ages, however, they have devoted themselves to the technical study of English law rather than to Roman law taught in universities (see Doctors` Commons). Previously, law was learned during service, the first basics possibly in the private internship with a civil servant. In the mid-13th century, as the common law had become vast and complicated, a class of men, educated but amateurish, emerged that created and dominated the legal profession and founded the Inns of Court in response to the problem of legal education.
Textbooks and books were not written in Latin, but in French and not Latin. The students listened to the arguments in court and discussed the law among themselves. With the introduction of printing, written legal texts became more available, reducing the need for students to attend readings and lectures. However, this meant that students denied themselves the opportunity to question what they had learned or discuss it in more detail. [36] Finally, when students have now had the opportunity to learn without attending lectures, they have begun to apologize as a result of lectures, meetings and quarrels; In the early 17th century, they developed a way to represent other students to make their pleadings for them. [37] Counsellors and readers did little to stop the decline in the practice of lectures and readings, firstly because many probably believed (as did students) that books were an appropriate substitute, and secondly because many were interested in avoiding the work of preparing for a reading that shortened their time as practicing lawyers. [38] These problems were endemic in all hostels, not just Gray`s Inn. [34] The English Civil War marked the end of legal education at inns, and the readership class declined. The last readers were appointed in 1677, and the post of reader at the head of the inn and members of the pension was taken over by the councillors.
[65] Gray`s Inn is one of four court inns in modern England through which lawyers and judges can be certified. It is located in the district of Holborn.