Law's Expanding Empire
The Reith Lectures
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The Impossibility of Judges Making Public Statements
Ben Dean: Some issues are impossible for judges not to be influenced by their opinions. It is very difficult to answer the question, what should the law be without expressing an opinion of your own on the subject? I think that the criticism on that headline of the divisional court in the Miller case was frankly absurd. If there are a number of people in this room who were described in a newspaper as being the enemies of the people, do you welcome that as a great expression of the freedom of the press? or are you worried about political and public pressure being placed on senior lawyers?
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