A dispute between Kiss and a fired wig roadie was settled out of court, after the presiding judge had warned the band it would be a “serious risk” if it proceeded. David Mathews, who’d ...

Barristers and judges, however, were late to the peruke party. The first widespread cases of members of the judiciary sporting the wig didn’t appear until around 1685, as the rest of society was ...

Which brings me to judges, robes and wigs. There’s no question that Kenya’s legal profession is tortured by the question of dress. What should lawyers and judges wear as official business dress?

And then there’s his cap. Every winter, without fail, he dons a cap that looks hilariously like a British judge’s wig — an heirloom passed down from his pishemoshai (uncle).The cap sits ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online ...

Which brings me to judges, robes and wigs. There’s no question that Kenya’s legal profession is tortured by the question of dress. What should lawyers and judges wear as official business dress?