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How the Judges Stood in the Way of Socialism

Bernard Porter

  • The Struggle for Civil Liberties: Political Freedom and the Rule of Law in b Britian 1914-1945 by K. D. Ewing and C.A. Gearty

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Bernard Porter’s books include the recently reissued Critics of Empire: British Radicals and the Imperial Challenge.

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