Boil the cook
Stephen Sedley: Treasonable Acts, 18 July 2024
The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History
by Allen D. Boyer and Mark Nicholls.
Routledge, 340 pp., £135, February,978 0 367 50993 4 Show More
by Allen D. Boyer and Mark Nicholls.
Routledge, 340 pp., £135, February,
“... the King’s Enemies; killing the Chancellor, Treasurer, or Judges in Execution of their Duty’. Allen Boyer (an American attorney and historian) and Mark Nicholls (a Cambridge academic) have what at first appears a straightforward project: to trace the path followed by English law for more than a millennium in categorising, criminalising and penalising ... ”