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Holdsworth Club 2012 Presidential Address: Where angels fear to tread



In considering what I might talk about today, it struck me that you might be interested in some aspects of those constitutional developments. In particular I thought I might focus on what Keith Mason, a former President of the Court of Appeal of New South Wales, described as "�therightof every judge to contribute to public debate.' In doing so I intend to heed the warning, picked up by E M Forster as a title for one of his novels, given by Alexander Pope in hisEssay on Criticism, that "�fools rush in where angels fear to tread'. Pope immediately went on to say,

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