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Product Description This year's volume of collected papers in the Current Legal Problems series contains many pieces of great topical interest. Public law has witnessed much activity both in the courts and in Parliament during the last twelve months and this is reflected in three essays which examine differentaspects of human rights, equality, and the right to privacy. In the wake of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, two lengthy essays deal with evidence in police investigations and the concept of due process and pre-trial criminal justice. The theory of property is the subject of a major essay,and there are important contributions on commercial law, medical law, the law of contract, and European Community law. Review `provides a high quality analysis of fundamental legal developments in each of the six core areas... those readers of the Gazette who have the time and intellectual interest to read the book through should feel both enlightened and stimulated on the completion of the intellectual endeavour' Incorporate Law Society of Ireland About the Author Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law, University College, London.