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The Reith Lectures 1986

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Six talks about
Law, Justice and Democracy by Lord McCluskey
Scottish High Court Judge,
Solicitor-General for Scotland 1974-9
2: The Clanking of Medieval Chains
'Law is a tool used by men to sculpt justice out of the raw material of life ... [but] how do judges, with precisely the same starting materials in terms of fact and legal tradition, end up crusading for diametrically opposite conclusions?'
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3) (Lecture 3. 'Hard Cases and Bad Law', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER

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