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- ... that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to have been elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea?
- ... that the foreman of the jury who acquitted Thomas Hardy of treason during the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain fainted after reading the verdict?
- ... that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton (pictured) was instrumental in establishing a UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress?
- ... that Leiden Law School is housed in the Kamerlingh Onnes Building, the former laboratory of physicist and Nobel laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes?
- ... that the locations in which one can execute a will according to the Wills Act 1963 include ships and aircraft?
- ... that legend tells of how 15th-century Chief Justice of the King's Bench Sir William Hankford committed an early form of suicide by cop?
- ... that Johann Schwarzhuber, the leader of the Auschwitz men's camp, was sentenced to death during the first Ravensbrück concentration camp trial?
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[edit]- Template:Did you know nominations/Neeru Chadha (September 2018)
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- Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/March
- Template:Did you know nominations/Leiden Law School (June 2018)
- Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/August
- Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/July
- Template:Did you know nominations/Johann Schwarzhuber (September 2019)