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Their learned friend, from Lady Chatterley to Howard Marks
2015
Overview
The book is divided into sections: espionage (George Blake and John Profumo), literary censorship ( Lady Chatterley's Lover , Fanny Hill ); freedom of the press (including a fascinating portrait of a young, idealistic Jonathan Aitken prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for leaking a document to the Sunday Telegraph about covert government support for the Nigerian government during the Biafran civil war) and film and theatre censorship ( Last Tango in Paris , Mary Whitehouse et al). [Jeremy Hutchinson] is an old-style civil libertarian who believes a jury is an essential bulwark against state tyranny. An Oxford graduate, leader at the criminal Bar, member of the House of Lords, chairman and trustee of the Tate Gallery, and deputy chairman of the Arts Council, he has the accoutrements of a fully fledged member of the British establishment. But Hutchinson is not a snob: he joined the British navy as a rating before the outbreak of war and had a celebratory dinner with Howard Marks following his sensational acquittal on drug-trafficking charges, after a jury accepted that the intelligence services had sanctioned Marks's involvement in the largest ever importation of cannabis. Hutchinson was junior counsel in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case. The jury were obliged to read the book before evidence was heard. They were, even at that juncture, nine-three in favour of acquittal. The Fanny Hill case involved the prosecution of a bookseller in the magistrate's court, and its precedent value was shaky. The three espionage cases all involved guilty pleas. The sentences in two - 42 and 18 years - were unflattering. A plea of guilty is its own craft.
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The Irish Times Ltd
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