Charon QC chairs Without Prejudice as usual as Gary Slapper, Times Law columnist and Director of NYU in London joins David Allen Green and me to discuss:

  • civil disobedience and the rule of law
  • the “Sedley v Sumption debate” about whether judges are becoming too political
  • the Leveson inquiry, and whether the News of the World tried to undermine a murder investigation, and
  • whether the rank of Queen’s Counsel should be abolished.

Here’s Jonathan Sumption’s FA Mann lecture and Sir Stephen Sedley’s LRB article in response, both of which we discuss. I’m the only one to speak up for Sumption who, in spite of some effective small thrusts Sedley makes against him, was I think making a real and important point.

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