Top of the Hill – Lawrence Cohen – “You Be The Judge!”

Lawrence will present some legal cases to everyone. He will give a basic description of each case and will then ask everybody to pretend to be the judge and tell everyone else what they would do.  Lawrence will then add a little more information to the case and will ask again what people would do.

Lawrence was born and raised in Liverpool and took a law degree at Manchester University in the mid-1970s. He qualified as a solicitor in 1982, and in that year moved to London with Deborah. He worked for 16 years in North London, eventually starting his own firm in the early 1990s.

He was appointed a Deputy District Judge in 1993 and ceased being a solicitor when he was appointed a full-time District Judge in 1998.

For 27 years, he was a resident judge at Edmonton County Court, eventually retiring earlier this year. At his retirement, he was the longest serving Judge in England and Wales.