Francis Bennion's writings before 1980

Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1970
1970.001	Book 3	Tangling with the law: Reform in Legal Process	Publishing Details
1970.002	DT001A	‘Professions and their codes’	DT 23 Nov 1970. p 12
1970.003	.	‘Darkest hour for the professions?’	EG (21 Nov 1970) 1003
1970.004	.	‘Positive Toryism’	.
1970.005	.	‘The future of the professions’	.
1970.006	.	‘The case for a joint professional body’	.
1970.007	.	‘The case for a congress of registered trade unions’	.
1970.008	.	‘The plight of the professions’	.
1970.009	.	‘Why I am prosecuting Peter Hain’	Published as pamphlet 27 May 1970
1970.010	.	‘Teachers who will never strike’	PAT journal, Dec 1970
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1971
1971.001	.	‘Stow Hill Report on legislative technique’	H of C SC on Procedure 2nd Rep 1970-71, HC 538, 223
1971.002	.	‘Reforming statutory drafting’	9th Int Symp on Comparative Law, U of Ottawa Press 1971 115
1971.003	.	‘The plight of the professions: the Monopolies Commission report’	ACNT 11 Feb 1971 175
1971.004	.	‘The plight of the professions: the case for a joint professional body’	ACNT 18 Feb 1971 211
1971.005	.	‘The plight of the professions: the Monopolies Commission report’	CEng Feb 1971 41
1971.006	.	‘The plight of the professions: the case for a joint professional body’	CEng Mar 1971 42
1971.007	.	‘The plight of the professions: the Monopolies Commission report’	PharmJ 5 Jun 1971 394
1971.008	.	‘The plight of the professions: the case for a joint professional body’	PharmJ 26 Jun 1971 469
1971.009	T003L	FB’s prosecution of Peter Hain for criminal conspiracy	The Times, 27 Feb and 4 Mar 1971
1971.010		'Law and the Environment’	Published only on this website.
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1972
1972.001	T004L	Costs of FB’s prosecution of Peter Hain for criminal conspiracy	The Times, 8 Sep 1972
1972.002		Statute Law - The key to clarity	Statute Law Society, Sweet & Maxwell, 1972
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1973
1973.001	.	Hain’s interference with the Wilf Isaac’s Cricket Tour 1969	.
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1974
1974.001	.	‘Understanding the Consumer Credit Act 1974’	118 SJ 44 (1 Nov 1974) 742-743
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1975
1975.001	.	'Laws are not for laymen'	The Guardian (29 May 1975) 11
1975.002	.	‘The Renton Report’	119 SJ (1975) 346
1975.003	.	‘The Renton Report’	125 NLJ (10 Jul 1975) 660-662
1975.004	.	‘A computer experiment in legislative drafting’	CL (Nov 1975) pp 8-10
1975.005	.	‘Awaiting the new system of consumer credit control’	120 Oyez Bulletin (1976) Autumn 1975 p 3
1975.006	.	Canada and Professional Association of Teachers	Toronto Globe and Mail, 15 Nov 1975
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1976
1976.001	.	'Our Legislators are CADS' (Acts: compression, anonymity, distortion and scatter.)	120 SJ (11 Jun 1976) pp 390-392
1976.002	.	‘Correcting a defect in the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964’	120 SJ (1976) pp 498-499
1976.003	.	'"First Consideration": A Cautionary Tale' (Use in an Act of ‘first consideration’)	126 NLJ (16 Dec 1976) 1237-1238
1976.004	Book 4	Consumer Credit Control	Publishing Details
1976.005	.	‘Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts 1’	120 SJ (2 Jan 1976) 2-4
1976.006	.	‘Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts 2’	120 SJ (9 Jan 1976) 20-22
1976.007	.	‘Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts 3’	120 SJ (16 Jan 1976) 39-40
1976.008	.	‘Group [Consumer Credit] Licensing for Accountants?’	174 The Accountant (20 May 1976) pp 589-590
1976.009	.	‘Computers and law in Canada 1’ Note : See 1977.007 for conclusion of this article	CL (Nov 1976) pp 8-10
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1976.010	.	‘The need for rented housing’ (letter)	LSG 27 Oct 1976
1976.011	T005L	How to treat obscenity	The Times, 25 Mar 1976
1976.012	T006L	Are MPs competent legislators?	The Times, 19 May 1976
1976.013	T007L	Democracy endangered by clumsy parliamentary procedures	The Times, 7 Jun 1976
1976.014	T008L	Pairing of MPs: good faith needed	The Times, 15 Jun 1976
1976.015	T009L	Elective dictatorship: a false charge by Lord Hailsham	The Times, 21 Oct 1976
1976.016	T010L	The House of Lords as a revising chamber	The Times, 18 Nov 1976
1976.017	T011L	Magistrate defames defendant while acquitting him	The Times, 16 Dec 1976
1976.018	.	Menu for a lunch to celebrate publication of Consumer Credit Control	.
1976.019	A001L	'Weak bargaining power of freelance authors'	Letter in The Author, Autumn 1976
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1976.020	.	Credit reference agencies and privacy	126 NLJ12 Aug 1976.
1976.021	.	Judges against Parliament	126 NLJ 14 Oct 1976
1976.022	.	Rationalising statutory forms	SJ 11 Feb 1976
1976.023	.	Failure of lawyers to support reform of statute law	SJ 23 Apr 1976
1976.024		‘For Race read Rage’	Published only on this website
1976.025		'Court of Appeal Criminal Division and its Jurisdiction'	Published only on this website
1976.026	Book	Plain Law	Foreword	Published only on this website
1976.026	Book	Plain Law	Part 1	Published only on this website
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1977
1977.001	.	‘Improvements in legislative techniques’	Pcdgs & Papers of 5th Com Law Cfce, pp 53-59 and blue page 7
1977.002	.	Review of Legislative Drafting: A New Approach by Sir W Dale	127 NLJ (1977) 1169
1977.003	.	The Libertine Trial (pornography)	NS (18 Feb 1977) pp 210-211
1977.004	.	‘Implementing the Consumer Credit Act 1’	121 SJ (15 Jul 1977) pp 467-468
1977.005	.	‘Implementing the Consumer Credit Act 2’	121 SJ (22 Jul 1977) pp 484-485
1977.006	.	‘Implementing the Consumer Credit Act 3’	121 SJ (29 Jul 1977) pp 500-502
1977.007	.	‘Computers and law in Canada 2’ Note : See 1976.009 for the first part of this article.	CL (Feb 1977) pp 10-11
1977.008	.	‘Scotching the Sex Haters’	97 TFT 4 (Apr 1977) pp 52, 61
1977.009	.	Review of Whatever Happened to Sex by Mary Whitehouse	97 TFT 6 (Jun 1977) pp 106-108
1977.010	T012L	Is pornography therapeutic?	The Times, 21 Mar 1977
1977.011	T013L	Hailsham’s ‘elective dictatorship’ again	The Times, 9 Apr 1977
1977.012	T014L	Mary Whitehouse prosecutes for blasphemy	The Times, 17 Jun 1977
1977.013	T015L	Should there be mirrors in the Gents?	The Times, 15 Jul 1977
1977.014	T016L	Should the right of private prosecution exist?	The Times, 21 Oct 1977
1977.015	DT001L	‘Freedom Under Law and Grunwick	Daily Telegraph, 6 Jul 1977
1977.016	.	Statute law reform: further processing of legislation	SJ 14 October 1977
1977.017		‘More help for the user of statute law?’	(Notes for FB’s lecture at Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 25 Jan 1977)
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1978
1978.001	.	‘Statute law obscurity and the drafting parameters’	BJLS Vol 5 Np. 2, 1978 pp 235-245
1978.002	.	‘Parliamentary Bills and the Renton Committee’	H of C SC on Procedure 1977-8, HC 588 III, 87
1978.003	Book 5	The Consumer Credit Act Manual (1st edn)	Publishing Details
1978.004	.	Statute Law Society Newsletter	Summer 1978
1978.005	.	Statute Law Society Newsletter	Autumn 1978
1978.006	.	Juror’s responsibility	98 TFT 2 (Feb 1978) p 30
1978.007	.	Attack on restrictive attitudes to sex	98 TFT (1978) p 136
1978.008	.	Humanist Kinds	98 TFT (Jun 1978) p 94
1978.009	.	Privacy	98 TFT 12 (Dec 1978) pp 189-191
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1978.010	.	Review of I Don’t Mind the Sex it’s the Violence by Enid Wistrich	98 TFT (Jun 1978) p 90
1978.011	.	‘A Platform for Persuaders?’ (The merits of euphanasia)	98 TFT (1978) 148
1978.012	NLJ...L	Functions of the Statute Law Society	128 NLJ (6 July 1978)
1978.013	.	BN001-’Need for a Council of Consultant Professions’	The Times Business News, 9 Jan 1978
1978.014	T017L	Creation of ‘library copyright’?	The Times, 10 Jan 1978
1978.015	T018L	Drawbacks of a Bill of Rights	The Times, 26 Jan 1978
1978.016	T019L	Why the European Human Rights Convention should not be part of our law	The Times, 5 Apl 1978
1978.017	T020L	Chivalry and El Vino’s	The Times, 1 Jun 1978
1978.018	T021L	Advantages of abolishing the House of Lords	The Times, 4 Sep 1978
1978.019	DT002L	‘Is homosexuality unnatural?’	Daily Telegraph, 29 Dec 1978
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1978.020	.	Unheeded appeal for information by Statute Law Society	SJ 12 May 1978
1978.021		Functions of the Statute Law Society	128 NLJ 6 July 1978
1978.022		Evidence to the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship	Published by the Defence of Literature and the Arts Society (DLAS) - Written by FB (Apr 1978)
1978.023		‘Moral Censorship and the Law.’	The Advocate, The magazine of Lincoln’s Inn Students Union, (Michaelmas 1978), p. 29
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1979
1979.001	.	‘Legislative technique I’	129 NLJ (23 Aug 1979) pp 748-750
1979.002	.	Review of Legislative Drafting (2nd edn) by G C Thornton	129 NLJ (1979) 1070
1979.003	.	‘Legislative technique II’	129 NLJ (1979) pp 1170-1172
1979.004	Book6	Renton and the Need for Reform	Publishing Details
	001	Introductory	.
	002	Part 1 - Failure to Implement the Renton Report	Address by Rt. Hon. Sir David Renton, Q.C., M.P., later Lord Renton, to the Statute Law Society, 6 April 1978
	003	Part 2 - Oral evidence to the Renton Committee	Given by Hedley Marshall, C.M.G., Q.C., and Brian Russell on behalf of the Statute Law Society
	004	Part 3 - Written evidence	Submitted by Francis Bennion
	005	Part 4 - FB’s oral evidence	Given by Francis Bennion
	006	Appendix - Parliamentary Questions	.
	007	Back cover of book	.
1979.005	NLJ	‘The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act - 60 Inglorious Years’ (Note: This article includes the subsequent correspondence.)	129 NLJ (8 Nov 1979) pp 1088-1089
1979.006	.	Towards One World	.
1979.007	.	Review of Sexual Experience Between Men and Boys by Parker Rossman	99 TFT (1979) pp 139-140
1979.008	.	Our Masonic Correspondent	99 TFT (1979) pp 117-118
1979.009	.	The Fight for Plant Rights	99 TFT (1979) pp 53-54
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1979.010	.	Review of Sex Violence and the Media by H. J. Eysenck and D. K. B. Nias’	99 TFT (1979) pp 11-13
1979.011	.	What is Secularism?	99 TFT (1979) 110
1979.012	.	Free Speech Till it Hurts	99 TFT (1979) pp 69-70
1979.013	T022L	Further thoughts on abolishing the House of Lords	The Times, 12 Sep 1978
1979.014	T023L	When crimes should be prosecuted	The Times, 29 Dec 1979
1979.015	.	Statute Law Society – FB’s Resignation Statement	.
1979.016	DT003L	‘How computers rendered hot metal printing obsolete’	Daily Telegraph, 9 Jun 1979
1979.017	.	Human Rights vagueness and Article 10	129 NLJ 22 Feb 1979
1979.018	.	The function of Parliament	129 NLJ, 12 Apr 1979
1979.019	.	Abuse of powers by the Executive	129 NLJ, 3 May 1979
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1979.020	.	‘Evidence to Royal Commission on Legal Services’ by FB	1 Feb 1979
1979.021	.	‘Evidence to Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure’ by FB, (Prosecution of Offences)	12 Sep 1979
1979.022	.	‘Further Evidence to Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure’ by FB, (Prosecution of Offences)	7 Nov 1979
1979.023	.	‘Evidence to Royal Commission on Legal Profession’ by FB, (The Need for a Legal Profession)	Date believed to be in 1979

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