MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE

Hardback. A book possibly considered provocative - even revolutionary at the time, to the legal world of judges, barristers, solicitors, academic lawyers and court officials. It makes novel and drastic suggestions for change in the trials of criminals - who, in democratic days, may have included ordinary people and even "top people" like the Lord Chancellor and the Editor of 'The Times'. A strong searchlight is directed upon miscarriages of Justice in the 'recent' past, and upon the ultra-conservative traditions that rendered them possible and probable at 'present'. "Modernise your criminal courts and bring them up-to-date" is the author's plea, made from first-hand experience of them. Bureaucratic inertia, political cowardice, and ultra-conservative legalism alone prevents modernisation. Not since Lord Westbury made his sweeping proposals for a root-and-branch reform of the English legal system had anything so challenging as the author's original ideas been flung into the arena. With Index. 276pp. 8vo. h/back. Includes tipped-in 'Errata' slip. Lightly foxed, o/w Vg+ in lightly soiled G++ dw.