Purity or Expediency?

Abstract

Many people were impressed and stimulated by Prof Walker's address to Conference last October and we have received several requests to reprint it. We are happy to print two extracts here, and are grateful to Nigel Walker for permission to do so.

The first deals with the thorny question of expediency and eclecticism versus single-minded moral or theoretical approaches; the second with a peculiarly British injustice: our apparent lack of concern to protect the anonymity of defendants.