Includes bibliographical references and index.

The scope of Judicial review and the rule of Law : Between Judicial restraint and Judicial Creativity -- Judicial review : its Genesis and Growth Post-1977 -- Judges in Public inquiries, redivivus -- The road to Rome and Strasbourg via San Francisco : the Genesis of Human Rights -- Towards a Legal Forum of the Isles -- A Calendar of Murder : the Causes of unjustifiable Homicide -- Towards a new Homicide Act --The Penalty for Murder : Life after Death -- The apotheosis of a mateurism -- English Juries on Trial -- The Ambit of Innocence -- 'Consuming Your Own Smoke' -- Crime and Justice : a Shift in Perspective -- The Magistracy : a Professional Court? -- Serious Fraud Offences : Whither Their Trial? -- James Hanratty : a Vindicatory View -- An Advocate's Tale -- Criminal Justice on Trial -- Victims Adrift -- The Whys and Wherefores of Penal Policy -- Community Service : Penological Progress -- Prisoners' Right to Vote -- Dangerousness -- Press (Media) Freedom : Constitutional Right or Cultural Assumption? -- The Jurisprudence of Privacy -- Media Freedom : a New Concept in Free Speech -- Censors in the Courtroom -- The Historical Background to Self-Regulation of the Press -- Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) : Middle Templar Extraordinary -- Intervention and Amicus Curiae -- Bench and Bar -- Judicial Heroes -- Lord Denning's Legacy : a Judicial Misfit? -- Pilgrims' Progress : Academics and Practitioners.