1. B.S. Jackson,Making Sense in Law (Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publications, 1995), 26?30.
2. [These sections offer a more systematic semiotic analysis of material discussed primarily from a Benthamite perspective in my forthcoming article: ?Bentham, Truth and the Semiotics of Law?, inLegal Theory at the End of the Millennium, ed. M.D.A. Freeman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 493?531 (=Current Legal Problems, vol. 51).
3. Details in a letter of Mr Ronald Thwaites, QC,The Times, 17.02.97.
4. The Times later reported that Paul Dacre, Editor ofThe Daily Mail, had taken a personal interest in the Lawrence case. He once employed Stephen's father to do some plastering work on his home. Mr. Lawrence had contacted Mr. Dacre to seek assurances that the case would be treated sympathetically.
5. Legal aid would not be available to the plaintiffs. Moreover, they could not in practice then avoid giving evidence. The newspaper could use, in seeking to establish the truth of its allegations (on the balance of probabilities), all the evidence used in the earlier criminal proceedings and even some evidence there excluded for legal reasons. See further n.15,infra.