Over the years of the developing judicial review of ministerial and
governmental decisions, Louis Blom-Cooper was a leading advocate
who grew up with the advent of a distinctive brand of public law.
His range of public activities, both in and outwith the courtroom,
saw him dubbed by his colleagues as a polymath practitioner.It
included chairmanship of plural public inquiries in child abuse and
mental health, media contributions in the broadsheet press and in
broadcasting, and innovation in penal reform, as an ardent
campaigner for the abolition of capital punishment and a plea for a
modern Homicide Act. He styled himself as a modern, reconstructed
liberal - a man before his time. This collection of essays is
uniquely prefaced by a self-examination of his unorthodox
philosophy towards the law in action. It covers a variety of
socio-legal topics that expresses his ambition to inform a
poorly-educated public on the workings of the legal system. This
aim involves a discussion of the constitutional history of Britain,
unwritten and insufficiently interpreted; it reflects a commitment
to the European Convention on Human Rights and portrays its
international origins. The collection opines on crime and
punishment; in the functioning of the courts and elsewhere the
political shift from the penal optimism of the 1970s to the
reactionary punitiveness of the post-1990s. The essays conclude
with a miscellany of affairs, reflecting on professional practices
and their product of judicial heroes in Lord Reid and Lord Bingham.
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