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Printed volume of nine broadcast talks on law reform which Hamson contributed to with a talk on ‘The Present Condition of the Law’ broadcast on 3 October 1952. The nine talks were first transmitted by the BBC on the Third Programme during October and November 1952 and featured contributions from Sir Cecil Carr, Lord Justice A. T. Denning, Professor Arthur Lehman Goodhart, D. R. Seaborne Davies, E. C. S. Wade, and G. L. Williams. See MSS Add.9957/10/12 for related correspondence.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Hamson, and T. S. Gregory, BBC Talks producer, concerning preparation for a series of broadcasts on law reform which Hamson contributed to with a talk on ‘The Present Condition of the Law’ broadcast on 3 October 1952. The nine talks were first transmitted by the BBC on the Third Programme during October and November 1952. All of the talks were reproduced in ‘Law Reform and Law Making’ (1953) and feature contributions from, amongst others, Professor Arthur Lehman...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Charles Hamson and various others concerning the case of Rookes v. Barnard. The correspondence falls into three discrete elements.The first is concerned with Hamson’s response to an article by Kenneth William (Bill) Wedderburn on the case of Rookes v. Barnard published in the ‘Modern Law Review’ Vol. 24, p.572 in September 1961 and responses to Hamson’s own article ‘Intimidation: A note on Rookes v. Barnard’ published in ‘The Cambridge Law Journal’ in November...