Above it all
Stephen Sedley, 7 April 1994
Suing Judges: A Study of Judicial Immunity
by Abimbola Olowofoyeku.
Oxford, 234 pp., £27.50, December 1993,0 19 825793 7 Show More
by Abimbola Olowofoyeku.
Oxford, 234 pp., £27.50, December 1993,
The Independence of the Judiciary: The View from the Lord Chancellor’s Office
by Robert Stevens.
Oxford, 221 pp., £25, November 1993,0 19 825815 1 Show More
by Robert Stevens.
Oxford, 221 pp., £25, November 1993,
“... certainly; a barrister – well, sometimes; a magistrate, rarely; a judge, never. In fact (though Abimbola Olowofoyeku has uncharacteristically missed this case) in 1746 the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas gave judgment for £1000 damages in favour of a Lieutenant Frye against the president of a court martial which had wronged him, and then encouraged ... ”
