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LORD HALDANE'S MINISTRY OF JUSTICE — STILLBORN OR STRANGLED AT BIRTH?
Author(s) -
DREWRY GAVIN
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1983.tb00534.x
Subject(s) - christian ministry , economic justice , conservatism , context (archaeology) , law , trace (psycholinguistics) , political science , sociology , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , politics
Echoes of the Haldane Committee's proposal in 1918 for the establishment of a Ministry of Justice can still be heard in current debate about the machinery of justice. Yet the Haldane proposal itself vanished almost without trace in the inter‐war years. This article examines the content and the context of the sporadic debate and concludes that the non‐implementation of the proposal is attributable to the innate conservatism of the legal profession and, more particularly, to the influence of the Lord Chancellor's Permanent Secretary, Sir Claud Schuster.