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This article is about time. It is about time, or more precisely, about the
absence of time in law’s digital future. It is also about time travelling and the
seemingly ever-popular BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. Further,
it is about law’s timefullness; about law’s pictorial past and the ‘visual baroque’ of
its chronological fused future. Ultimately, it is about a time paradox of seeing time
run to a time when time runs ‘No More!’ This ‘timey-wimey’ article is in three
parts. The first part looks to a hazy remembered past of the legal emblem tradition
as presented in Peter Goodrich’s Legal Emblems and the Art of Law to learn visual
literacy and also to glimpse the essential elements of modern legality with authority,
decision and violence. The second part maps how these images and icons of modern
legality are manifest in the Doctor Who fiftieth year anniversary special ‘The Day of
the Doctor.’ The third stage looks beyond these first order meanings to understand
the chronological chaos of ‘The Day of the Doctor.’ The technicity of the image as a
portal through time and space that the narrative revolves around charts the implications
for the digital end of time for law.