When judges sleep
Stephen Sedley, 10 June 1993
In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain
by A.W.B. Simpson.
Oxford, 453 pp., £35, December 1992,0 19 825775 9 Show More
by A.W.B. Simpson.
Oxford, 453 pp., £35, December 1992,
“... land in breach of bye-laws which, it turned out, had been illegally made. It also gave the new Lord Chief Justice an example, for his Dimbleby Lecture, of the law’s ability to play a straight bat. A book may be lurking there, as it must in many other corners of the legal attic. Brian Simpson himself embarked on such an enterprise some years ago with the ... ”