* Wigs are far from dead yet. Not only have the circuit bench clung to theirs (for all cases, not just criminal) ? even the district judges, who sported the new gowns at the ceremonial opening of the legal year yesterday, ended up wearing barristers? wigs. Not quite the vision that Betty Jackson, designer of the gowns, must have had in mind. ?They felt it would look a bit odd in the procession being the only ones without wigs,? one judge explained.
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