Thom regularly writes articles for publication on various issues of legal interest. He has been published in The Times, The Guardian, New Statesman and Prospect, as well as in specialist law journals like Judicial Review, Public Law and the Solicitors Journal.
Thom regularly writes articles for publication on various issues of legal interest. He has been published in The Times, The Guardian, Private Eye, New Statesman and Prospect, as well as in specialist law journals like Judicial Review, Public Law and the Solicitors Journal, and has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about legal issues.
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Nobody could accuse Lord Sumption of ducking the big issues. They certainly don’t get much bigger than those he addressed in the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, given in Kuala Lumpur, on 20 November 2013. His paper, entitled “The Limits of Law”, sought nothing less than a redefinition of the boundary between the legal and the political (This article first appeared in Judicial Review on 31 October 2016).
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