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The Independence of the Judiciary: The View from the Lord Chancellor’s Ofice by Robert Stevens Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, xii + 184 + (tables, bibliography and index) 37 pp (hardback £25.00).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1994

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References

1. For a discussion of the nature of NPM see Christopher Hood ‘A Public Management for all Seasons’Public Administration (1991) vol 69, pp 3–20.

2. Robert Stevens Law and Politics (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979).

3. Brian Abel-Smith and Robert Stevens Lawyers and the Courts (Heinemann, 1967); Allen Lane In Search of Justice (The Penguin Press, 1968).

4. See, in particular, Avner Offer ‘The Origins of the Law of Property Acts, 1910–25’ (1977) MLR, vol 40, pp 505–22; Gavin, Drewry Lawyers in the Uk Civil Service Public Administration (1981) vol 59 pp 1546 Google Scholar; ‘Lord Haldane's Ministry of Justice - Stillborn or Strangled at Birth?’, Public Administration (1983) vol 61. pp 396–414. The two latter articles, by this reviewer, drew upon some of the same records as those used by Stevens.

5. Patrick Polden Guide to the Records of the Lord Chancellor's Department (HMSO, 1988).