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Latest additions to this site
Swatting
up (22 Jun)
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Long live the ballot (15
Jun)
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Olla
Podrida No. 6 (4 Jun)
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MPs' expenses: due respect
for Parliament (1 Jun 2009)
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Practical
Statutory Interpretation (May 27)
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How
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Rules
were broken in MPs’ expenses scandal (May 26)
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Complex Legislation: Is
Redaction The Answer? (15 May)
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The beauty of Bewick writ
large (6 May)
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About Francis Bennion . . .
Born 2 January 1923 in Cheshire, England, non-award
winning FB remains active as a writer and academic. At his Devon home, using the internet,
he writes or updates his law books and articles, does occasional broadcasts, and, with
over 100 letters in the Times, spreads his opinions on many matters of public concern.
Since 1984 he has been a research associate of the Oxford University Centre for Socio-Legal
Studies.
During World War II, FB served as an RAF pilot.
He then read law at Balliol and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple. He became
law tutor at St Edmund Hall Oxford, last of the medieval halls. He then served 14 years
in the Westminster Parliamentary Counsel Office drafting Acts of Parliament.
In 1956 FB drafted the constitution by which
Pakistan became a republic. Then in 1960 he drafted the constitution by which Ghana became
a republic. His first book, explaining the Ghana constitution, followed in 1962.
In the 1960s FB served as chief executive of
the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and wrote Professional Ethics.
He has also written a book on sexual ethics.
In 1971-72 FB brought a private prosecution against
Peter Hain. After a 10-day Old Bailey trial Hain was convicted
of criminal conspiracy to organise illegal direct action protests.
In 1984 FB published his main work, Statutory
Interpretation. The fifth edition of this, totalling over 1700 pages, was published
in 2008.
FB has founded or co-founded various bodies including
the World of Property Housing Trust, Towards One World, the Professional Association
of Teachers, the Statute Law Society, the Statute Law Trust, Freedom Under Law, the Dicey
Trust, and the Areopagitica Educational Trust.
FB’s books
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