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Collecting the most important writings of Tom Bingham during his time in judicial office before the House of Lords, The Business of Judging is written for anyone with an interest in public affairs. It offers an absorbing account of the law and the courts in public life, presenting Bingham's reflections on the judicial role and the common law.

A lecturer on theAlabamaclaims and the Geneva Tribunal of 1871–2, like a director ofHamlet, has to accept one inescapable fact: that everyone knows, broadly at least, how the story ends. There can be no reliance on suspense to sustain interest in the narrative. So I shall begin at the end.

We are indebted to Professor Brian Simpson, in his brilliant work on executive detension in wartime Britain,1for giving greater prominence to a very characteristic and memorable Churchillian utterance: