{"id":250,"date":"2014-01-20T21:54:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missrebeccaalice.wordpress.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2016-07-18T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T07:19:19","slug":"legalmovies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/01\/20\/legalmovies\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently these are the top 25 must see &#8220;legal movies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What do you consider to be some of the best legal movies?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Below is a list of the top movies with some form of legal basis to them, and in some of the films (a very tiny legal basis). \u00a0The list was co-ordinated by ABA New Journal and Amazon, and a lot of these films have appeared on other &#8220;Top 10&#8221; listings for law related films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have to confess that whilst I have seen some of these films, some I have never heard of &#8211; but I will be adding them to my DVD list and will watch them this year. \u00a0I am more of a Boxset girl, and have quite a lot of them, so will be incorporating some of those into a blog post fairly soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am so pleased to see that one of my all time favourite books and films made it to number 1 on the list. \u00a0I love <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29HmShG\">To Kill A Mockingbird<\/a>, not just because of the legal nature, but the whole story is so well written and thought provoking. \u00a0Plus it provides some form of grounding and reality check for society today &#8211; least not that we should believe in our gut instincts no matter if everyone else is going the other way, not judge a book by it&#8217;s cover, and finally we need to remember that everyone is innocent until proven guilty. A must see for anyone who has not seen it! \u00a0<strong>Plus a bargain at \u00a34 on <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29HmShG\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29HmShG\">To Kill a Mockingbird<\/a> (1962)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2802\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01.png\"><img src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%20225'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2802 size-medium\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-300x225.png\" alt=\"To Kill A Mockingbird - Top 25 must see legal movies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01.png 818w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2802 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-300x225.png\" alt=\"To Kill A Mockingbird - Top 25 must see legal movies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-18-at-08.12.01.png 818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> To Kill A Mockingbird &#8211; Top 25 must see legal movies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. 12 Angry Men (1957)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. My Cousin Vinny (1992)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5. Inherit the Wind (1960)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">6. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">7. Breaker Morant (1980)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">8. Philadelphia (1993)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">9. Erin Brockovich (2000)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">10. The Verdict (1982)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">11. Presumed Innocent (1990)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">12. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">13. A Man for All Seasons (1966)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">14. A Few Good Men (1992)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">15. Chicago (2002)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 3\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">16. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">17. The Paper Chase (1973)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">18. Reversal of Fortune (1990)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">19. Compulsion (1959)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20. And Justice for All (1979)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">21. In the Name of the Father (1993)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">22. A Civil Action (1998)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 4\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">23. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">24. Amistad (1997)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">25. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So there is the list.. How many have you seen? Would you consider them to be in the top 25? Let me know if there are any other films you believe should be in the list.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I am not sure how many of you will have seen the film <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29S6PkM\">Provoked (2006)<\/a> &#8211; it is one of my favourite films, and one very few people have seen. \u00a0I am passionate about the case behind the film, and spent many hours studying the topic of provocation (now loss of control) and writing a report on it. \u00a0I would highly recommend this film, as though there has been that there were lots of artistic changes from the case itself, it is still worth a watch. \u00a0This film is a reflection of a very real case, R v Ahluwalia (1993), whereby a woman doused her husband in petrol and caustic soda, then set fire to him. \u00a0She had suffered a decades worth of abuse from him, and on the night she set fire to him he had threatened to beat her with an iron. If you haven&#8217;t read the case I would strongly encourage you to do so, because there are so many factors that enabled this woman to have her murder conviction quashed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend you checking out the film <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29S6PkM\">Provoked<\/a>, or having a quick read of the case.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rebecca x<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">#janlawblogpost<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you consider to be some of the best legal movies? Below is a list of the top movies with some form of legal basis to them, and in some of the films (a very tiny legal basis). \u00a0The list was co-ordinated by ABA New Journal and Amazon, and a lot of these films have appeared on other &#8220;Top 10&#8221; listings for law related films. 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