LORD HALDANE'S MINISTRY OF JUSTICE — STILLBORN OR STRANGLED AT BIRTH? |
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| Authors: | GAVIN DREWRY |
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| Institution: | Gavin Drewry is a Lecturer in Government, Bedford College, University of London. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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