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Latest additions to this site
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling defends
reforms of legal aid (22 May 2013)
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Parliamentary power to override judicial
independence
(17 May 2013)
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Loss of respect for senior judges (17
May 2013
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'Managed
currencies' by J. M. Keynes (10 May 2013)
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Trying
to deport Abu Qatada - Letter 2 (1 May 2013)
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Trying
to deport Abu Qatada - Letter 1 (1 May 2013)
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Danger
of secret Arrests (22 Apr 2013)
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Dubious press amendments (22 Apr 2013)
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FB’s
Daily Telegraph article on Leveson Report (12 Apr 2013)
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Plain
Law (12 Apr 2013)
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Plain
Language in Law (10 Apr 2013)
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Why
we don’t want a press statute (18 Mar 2013)
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About Francis Bennion . . .
Born 2 January 1923 in
Cheshire, England, FB remains active as a writer and academic.
At his Devon home, using the internet, he writes or updates his
books and articles, does occasional broadcasts, and, with around
150 letters
in the Times, as well as many in other
newspapers and journals, 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 a volunteer 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 practised at the Bar in common law and human rights cases.
Later he served 14 years in the Westminster Parliamentary Counsel
Office drafting Acts of Parliament for the British Government.
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 (RICS) and wrote
Professional Ethics.
He has also written a book, The
Sex Code, 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. His
appeal was rejected.
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, Areopagitica Educational Trust and Towards
One World.
FB’s
books
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