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This account of the relationship between the judiciary and the government has been fully revised and updated to consider the latest developments affecting its relations. The book includes discussion of Michael Howard's conflict with the judges, miscarriages of justice, the Criminal Justice Act, and the effects of the anti-trade union legislation of the 1980s.