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Stephen Sedley

Stephen Sedley is a Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales and a contributor of legal biographies to the DNB.

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subscriber-only content Second Time Around · 6 September 2007

  • The Court of Appeal by Gavin Drewry, Louis Blom-Cooper and Charles Blake  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Diary: Judge Dredd · 7 June 2007

subscriber-only content No Law at All · 2 November 2006

  • A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law by R.W. Kostal  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Towards a Right to Privacy · 8 June 2006

subscriber-only content Farewell Sovereignty · 9 February 2006

  • The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson  Buy this book

subscriber-only content From Victim to Suspect · 21 July 2005

Short Cuts: The case for a national DNA register · 20 January 2005

subscriber-only content Everything and Nothing · 7 October 2004

subscriber-only content Diary: Stephen Sedley shares a drink with the man who tried to bring Pinochet to justice · 24 June 2004

subscriber-only content Howzat? · 25 September 2003

  • The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial by John Langbein
  • Archbold: International Criminal Courts edited by Rodney Dixon, Richard May and Karim Khan

subscriber-only content No More Victors’ Justice? · 2 January 2003

subscriber-only content Colonels in Horsehair · 19 September 2002

  • Sceptical Essays on Human Rights edited by Tom Campbell and K.D. Ewing

subscriber-only content Wringing out the Fault · 7 March 2002

subscriber-only content Turning on Turtles · 15 November 2001

  • Fundamental Values edited by Kim Economides et al

subscriber-only content Settlers v. Natives · 8 March 2001

  • Questioning Sovereignty: Law, State and Nation in the European Commonwealth by Neil MacCormick
  • Waitangi and Indigenous Rights: Revolution, Law and Legitimation by F.M. Brookfield

In Judges’ Lodgings · 11 November 1999

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive The Right to Know · 10 August 2000

 not available in archive Where will the judges sit? · 16 September 1999

  • The House of Lords: Its Parliamentary and Judicial Roles edited by Brice Dickson and Paul Carmichael
  • Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years edited by Robert Hazell
  • The Law and Parliament edited by Dawn Olivier and Gavin Drewry
  • Crown Powers: Subject and Citizens by Christopher Vincenzi

 not available in archive How Laws Discriminate · 29 April 1999

 not available in archive This beats me · 2 April 1998

  • Statutory Interpretation: third edition by Francis Bennion
  • Law and Interpretation edited by Andrei Marmor
  • Equality before the Law: Deaf People’s Access to Justice by Mary Brennan and Richard Brown

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