Stephen Sedley

Stephen Sedley has just retired after 19 years as a judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal. Ashes and Sparks, a collection of his essays and lectures, many of them first published in the LRB, came out in February from Cambridge.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Goodwin and Giggs Show: Super-Injunctions · 16 June 2011

• Plimsoll’s Story · 28 April 2011

  • The Oxford History of the Laws of England 1820-1914: Vol. XI, English Legal System; Vol. XII, Private Law; Vol. XIII, Fields of Development edited by William Cornish et al

• When should a judge not be a judge? · 6 January 2011

• Enemies of All Mankind: Pirates · 24 June 2010

  • The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law by Nigel Rodley, with Matt Pollard
  • The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations by Daniel Heller-Roazen
  • The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter Leeson

• On the Move: Constitutional Moments · 8 October 2009

  • The New British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor

• ‘Fluent Gaul has taught the British advocates’: Dispute Resolution · 12 February 2009

  • Early English Arbitration by Derek Roebuck

• No Ordinary Law: Constitution-Makers · 5 June 2008

• Second Time Around: In the Court of Appeal · 6 September 2007

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

• Diary: Judge Dredd · 7 June 2007

• No Law at All: The Governor Eyre Affair · 2 November 2006

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

• Towards a Right to Privacy: What to do with a prurient press? · 8 June 2006

• Farewell Sovereignty: The Case for the Regicides · 9 February 2006

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

• From Victim to Suspect: The Era of the Trial · 21 July 2005

  • The Trial: A History from Socrates to O.J. Simpson by Sadakat Kadri

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

• Everything and Nothing: Who will speak for the judges? · 7 October 2004

• Diary: the man who tried to bring Pinochet to justice · 24 June 2004

• Howzat?: Adversarial or Inquisitorial? · 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

• No More Victors’ Justice?: On Trying War Crimes · 2 January 2003

• Colonels in Horsehair: Human Rights and the Courts · 19 September 2002

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

• Wringing out the Fault: The Right to Silence · 7 March 2002

• Turning on Turtles: fundamental values · 15 November 2001

  • Fundamental Values edited by Kim Economides et al

• 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

• The Right to Know: freedom of information · 10 August 2000

• Diary: Judges’ Lodgings · 11 November 1999

• Where will the judges sit?: What will happen to the Law Lords? · 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

• How Laws Discriminate: The Law’s Inequalities · 29 April 1999

• This beats me: The Drafter’s Contract · 2 April 1998

  • Statutory Interpretation 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

• What Bill and What Rights? · 5 June 1997

• Persons Aggrieved · 22 May 1997

• The Common Law and the Constitution · 8 May 1997

• Big Lawyers and Little Lawyers · 28 November 1996

  • The Access to Justice: Final Report by Lord Woolf
  • The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology by Richard Susskind

• Extra-Legal · 19 October 1995

  • Overcoming Law by Richard Posner

• Rights, Wrongs and Outcomes · 11 May 1995

• Doctor in the Dock · 20 October 1994

  • Medical Negligence edited by Michael Powers and Nigel Harris

• Above it all · 7 April 1994

  • Suing Judges: A Study of Judicial Immunity by Abimbola Olowofoyeku
  • The Independence of the Judiciary: The View from the Lord Chancellor’s Office by Robert Stevens

• Whose Justice? · 23 September 1993

  • The Report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice

• When judges sleep · 10 June 1993

  • In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain by A.W.B. Simpson

• Sorry to decline your Brief · 11 June 1992

  • Judge for yourself by James Pickles
  • The Barrister’s World by John Morison and Philip Leith
  • Advocates by David Pannick

• Free speech for Rupert Murdoch · 19 December 1991

• Diary · 9 November 1989

• Breaking the Law · 18 May 1989

  • The Work and Organisation of the Legal Profession
  • Contingency Fees

• Keeping mum · 2 March 1989

  • The Spycatcher Trial by Malcolm Turnbull
  • Reform of the Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911: Government White Paper
  • Official Secrets Bill
  • Security Service Bill

• Stephen Sedley writes about the state of the law, and about the wild wood that surrounds it · 5 May 1988

  • A Matter of Justice: The Legal System in Ferment by Michael Zander
  • The Coercive State: The Decline of Democracy in Britain by Paddy Hillyard and Janie Percy-Smith

• Diary · 5 March 1987

• Who didn’t kill Carl Bridgewater? · 9 October 1986

  • Murder at the Farm: Who killed Carl Bridgewater? by Paul Foot

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