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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
4: Trusting the Judges
'In law, avoidable uncertainty is an evil and unfettered judicial freedom a vice.... In law as in much of life, we make people abide by the rules. But that is tolerable only if people can readily discover what the rules are, and what they mean.'
(Re-broadcast next Sunday on Radio 3) (Lecture 5. 'An Enormous Power', next Wednesday on Radio 4)
The Reith Lectures are printed weekly in THE LISTENER

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