Contents

Foreword by Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls v

Introduction 1

Part I: Public Law: Judicial and Judicious Review

1 The Scope of Judicial Review and the Rule of Law:

Between Judicial Restraint and Judicial Creativity 9

2 Judicial Review: its Genesis and Growth Post-1977 35

3 Judges in Public Inquiries, Redivivus 38

4 The Road to Rome and Strasbourg via San Francisco:

the Genesis of Human Rights 49

5 Towards a Legal Forum of the Isles 60

Part II: Crime and Justice

6 A Calendar of Murder: the Causes of Unjustifiable

Homicide 70

7 Towards a New Homicide Act 71

8 The Penalty for Murder: Life after Death 92

9 The Apotheosis of Amateurism 116

10 English Juries on Trial 136

11 The Ambit of Innocence 139

12 ‘Consuming Your Own Smoke’ 146

13 Crime and Justice: a Shift in Perspective 150

14 The Magistracy - a Professional Court? 169

15 Serious Fraud Offences: Whither Their Trial? 175

16 James Hanratty: a Vindicatory View 187

17 An Advocate’s Tale 194

18 Criminal Justice on Trial 207

19 Victims Adrift 213

Part III: Penal Affairs

20 The Whys and Wherefores of Penal Policy 221

21 Community Service: Penological Progress 228

22 Prisoners’ Right to Vote 231

23 Dangerousness 236

Part IV: Media Law

24 Press (Media) Freedom: Constitutional Right or Cultural

Assumption? 247

25 The Jurisprudence of Privacy 260

26 Media Freedom: a New Concept in Free Speech 276

27 Censors in the Courtroom 278

28 The Historical Background to Self-Regulation of the Press 289

Part V: Miscellany

29 Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950): Middle Templar

Extraordinary 299

30 Intervention and Amicus Curiae 312

31 Bench and Bar 320

32 Judicial Heroes 330

33 Lord Denning’s Legacy: a Judicial Misfit? 334

34 Pilgrims’ Progress: Academics and Practitioners 347

Index 359