Legal authorities talk on Magna Carta, English law

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two authorities on the British legal system are scheduled to speak in Columbia about the Magna Carta and England’s justice system.

Retired High Court Justice of England and Wales Sir Stephen Silber and Sir Robert Worcester, a retired chancellor of the University of Kent, are speaking Friday at 11 a.m. at the South Carolina Statehouse

The Magna Carta was signed in June 1215 by England’s medieval barons and King John. It was a landmark document that curbed a king’s rights and became the source of the English and American systems of law. Worcester is chairman of the Magna Carta’s 2015 800th anniversary commemoration committee.

Silber is also speaking to and meeting with faculty and students at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law.