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Common Law

Discussion about common law, the legal system and miscarriages of justice

The history of common law in England and how it spread across the English-speaking world, adapting to local cultures. Plus, the development of the legal system, and questions arising from recent miscarriages of justice.
In this first of five parts, speakers include Lord Denning, legal historian Professor John Baker and Sir Frederick Lawton.

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