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Few have shaped the field of law, both as practitioner and writer, as Michael Beloff KC. This expertly curated collection tracks this impact through his writings and lectures. Over three parts, the work show just how the fields of sports law, law and education and the legal environment more generally, was (and continues to be) impacted by the innovation and insight of the author.
List of contents
Part One - Introduction
Part Two - Advocacyi. A View from the Bar
ii. Advocacy as Art.
iii. Virtuous Voices - the Advocates contribution to the Rule of Law
iv. Looking at the Locus
Part Three - Judgesi. Towards a Supreme Court - the British Experience
ii. Neither Cloistered nor Virtuous; Judges and their Independence in the New Millenium
iii. Paying Judges - why, who, whom, how much?
Part Four - Historyi. Women in Wigs - the Irresistible Rise of Sisters in Law
ii. FE Smith - Lessons from a Legal Life
iii. Law and the Judiciary in Blair's Britain
iv. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
a. Carman
b. Slynn
c. Nicholls
d. Laws
Part Five - Sporti. Pitch, Pool, Rink Court? Judicial Review in the World of Sport
ii. The Specificity of Sport; Rhetoric or Reality?
iii. Is there a Lex Sportiva?
iii. Sport Ethics and the Law.
About the author
The Hon Michael Beloff KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, a former President of Trinity College Oxford. He is Treasurer of Gray’s Inn and Senior Ordinary Appeal Judge of the Channel Islands Courts of Appeals. He is also a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He has also served as an Olympic arbitrator on five separate occasions.
‘Michael Beloff QC is in the small pantheon of great civil barristers of the last half century’
The Times
‘The law according to W.S. Gilberts Lord Chancellor is “the true embodiment or everything that’s excellent’” and, by common consent, Michael Beloff QC has been one of the prime exemplars of that excellence over the past fifty years’
The Spectator
‘Michael Beloff KC is generally regarded as the legal giant of his generation. There are no historical or contemporary barristers who have come close to sitting at the top of the advocacy tree for so long and so successfully’
Times Literary Supplement
