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01 December 1994

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New Statesman guide to Trade Unions and the labour movement 1995, New Statesman supplement 2.9.94.

Sentencing rapists: first tier courts in 1991-92 Paul Robertshaw. Criminal Law Review pp343-345 (May) 1994. Article on "soft or inappropriate" sentences for rape that concludes that there are grounds for thorough monitoring and review of rape sentences and, perhaps, of the criteria for approving judges for this class of case.

Liberty in Britain: a diamond jubilee history: 1934-1994. Brian Dyson Civil Liberties Trust pp100 6.99. A very useful history of NCCL now Liberty written by the Hull University archivist. It traces the establishment of NCCL under Ronald Kidd in 1934, the difficult postwar years, its reemergence in the late 1960s as a campaigning organisation, and the debates which proved controversial over the miners' strike and "free speech" for racists and fascists.

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