Scarman shared many of Lord Denning's fresh, down-to-earth qualities, only his were less obvious. He was, as one barrister put it, "the sort of man you might expect to see presenting arts programmes ...

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, who is the most senior judge in England and Wales, said it was Lord Scarman's "pioneering work" which paved the way for the Human Rights Act 1998. "He was a lawyer ...

Lord Scarman, a former law lord and one of the legal giants of the 20th century, has died aged 93. Leslie Scarman was best known to the public as the chairman of the inquiry into the 1981 Brixton ...

HOW useful are public inquiries into security and political disasters? When we debate the value of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday we can learn from the problems of the Scarman Tribunal, also ...

Lord Scarman, one of the country's most respected legal figures, who conducted the ground-breaking report into the 1981 Brixton riots, died yesterday at the age of 93. Although Lord Scarman had a long ...

The Lord Scarman, who died on Wednesday aged 93, was one of the finest lawyers of the post-war era; a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1977 until 1986, he achieved widest recognition as a law reformer ...

BACK in the 1980s, the Brixton area of south London was one of the more dangerous in the capital. Away from the bustling Brixton Road and the lively Caribbean market it was poor, squalid and riddled ...

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LORD Scarman, who has died aged 93, was one of the finest lawyers of the post-War era. His effortless charm won him admiration from both sides when he chaired an inquiry in the North. As a British ...