Plimsoll’s Story
Stephen Sedley, 28 April 2011
The Oxford History of the Laws of England 1820-1914: Vol. XI, English Legal System; Vol. XII, Private Law; Vol. XIII, Fields of Development
edited by William Cornish et al.
Oxford, 3571 pp., £495, February 2010,978 0 19 925883 3 Show More
edited by William Cornish et al.
Oxford, 3571 pp., £495, February 2010,
“... drank in the Palsgrave Tavern which once stood here). Alongside the noisy travail of the born-again legal system and its new emporium, novel administrative structures had been quietly growing. These were to transform the state more fundamentally than the reconstitution of the courts. They ranged from railway and canal commissions, headed by a judge ... ”