The Due Process of Law 1st edition by Alfred Denning ISBN 0406176080 9780406176080

Part one: Keeping the Streams of Justice Clear and Pure

Introduction

1 In the face of the Court

1 In my own presence

2 The Welsh students invade the Court

3 The Official Solicitor comes in with the Devil

4 The ‘laughing gas’ does not escape

2 The victimisation of witnesses

1 The trade union member is deprived of his office

2 The tenant is evicted from his home

3 Refusing to answer questions

1 Two journalists are sent to prison

2 The New Statesman is angry

4 Scandalising the Court

1 Lord Mansfield is criticised

2 Mr Justice Avory comes under fire

3 We ourselves are told to be silent

5 Disobedience to an order of the Court

1 Strict proof

2 The three dockers

3 The five dockers

4 The ward of court

6 Prejudicing a fair trial

1 ‘Vampire Arrested’

2 The Thalidomide case

3 A ‘gagging writ’

4 The Exclusive Brethren

Conclusion

Part two: Inquiries into Conduct

Introduction

1 Into the conduct of judges

1 The judge who talked too much

2 The judge who made a mistake

2 Into the conduct of ministers

3 Into the conduct of directors

1 Behind the curtain

2 The Pergamon Press

3 Can the directors stop it?

4 A useful weapon

4 Into the conduct of gaming clubs

5 Into the conduct of aliens

6 Into the delays of lawyers

1 Into the Courts of Law

2 Can anything be done about arbitrations?

Part three: Arrest and Search

Introduction

1 Making an arrest

1 The role of the police

2 ‘Come along with me’

3 Identification by a photograph

4 Should the prosecution tell?

5 Unfit to drive

2 Making a search

Introduction

1 Passports withheld

2 Search warrants

3 The ladies’ garments

4 The military style operation

3 New procedures

Introduction

1 The pirates – the Anton Piller order

2 The bootleggers

Part four: The Mareva Injunction

Introduction

1 We introduce the process

1 The start off

2 The Mareva itself

3 Both sides are heard

2 We are reversed

1 The Siskina sinks without trace

2 We are sunk too like the Siskina

3 But not without trace

4 An English-based defendant

5 A man is decapitated

6 Recommendations thus far ignored

Part five: Entrances and Exits

Introduction

1 The common law about aliens

Introduction

1 The ‘black’ is set free

2 The fugitive from the United States

3 The student of ‘Scientology’

4 Freedom of movement

2 Commonwealth citizens

Introduction

1 Patrials

2 Illegal entrants

3 Expelled persons

4 Overstayers and others

3 Exits

Introduction

1 A move to Jersey

2 Dr Wallersteiner, I presume

3 The giant chartering group

Part six: Ventures into Family Law

1 How I learned the trade

1 I become a divorce judge

2 Sitting to try divorce cases

3 Over to the King’s Bench

4 On circuit

5 Chairmanship of the Divorce Committee

6 Things have changed now

2 The story of emancipation

1 The difference

2 The past

3 The attitude of the Church

4 The effect on the law

5 Parliament alters all

6 The present status

Part seven: The Deserted Wife’s Equity

Introduction

1 Invoking Section 17 of the 1882 Act

1 A case in chambers

2 A piece of minor business

3 The first deserted wife comes before me

4 My principle is overturned

2 Invoking the aid of equity

1 Equity comes to the rescue

2 A junior wins his spurs

3 An outcry amongst the purists

3 The Lords triumphant

1 The deserted wife is taken to the Lords

2 The Lords blow up the deserted wife

4 Lady Summerskill takes charge

1 Uproar follows

2 The Class F charge

3 Not a ‘bare wife’

4 ‘Battered wives’

Part eight: The Wife’s Share in the Home

1 The judges introduce it

1 A silent revolution

2 The sailor gets a share in the proceeds

3 The airman’s wife gets a share in the house itself

4 Making improvements in the house

2 The wide principle of fairness

1 I put it too widely

2 The Lords denounce the wide principle

3 The trust concept

1 The Lords introduce the concept of a trust

2 The trust concept wins the day

3 If the husband sells the house

4 Will it lead to chaos?

5 The outcome

4 Where there is no financial contribution

1 The gap left by the Lords

2 The gap is filled by Parliament

3 The judges do what is necessary

4 More and more equality

Conclusion

Epilogue

Index

Notes