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London Review of Books Christmas Books

This beats me

Stephen Sedley

  • 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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Stephen Sedley is a lord justice of appeal for England and Wales and president of the British Institute for Human Rights. He gave the 2007 Mishcon lecture at University College London under the delphic title ‘Bringing Rights Home: Time to Start a Family?’

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