Stephen Sedley: 2 books
Ashes and Sparks
Essays On Law and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
As a practising barrister, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley wrote widely on legal and non-legal matters, and continued to do so after becoming a judge in 1992. This anthology contains classic articles, previously unpublished essays and lecture transcripts. To each, he has added reflections on what...
Lions under the Throne
Essays on the History of English Public Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Francis Bacon wrote in 1625 that judges must be lions, but lions under the throne. From that day to this, the tension within the state between parliamentary, judicial and executive power has remained unresolved. Lions under the Throne is the first systematic account of the origins and development...