Possible Clues:

• A sweetener involving a US writer upset High Court
• OAPs argue for representation in High Court
• Watchman stabbed by a writer up in court
• Eminence inspiring Milton's attack on censorship?
• A European group assembled for court in Acts
• Athenian court
• Eminence inspiring Milton's attack on censorship
• A rug Aesop knotted, inspiring Milton work
• Ancient Greek court; ago, as pure (anag.)