THE COURTS AND THE PEOPLE

On 28 October 1647, the weekly meeting of the General Council of the New Model Army held in St Mary's Church, Putney turned into a debate about matters of constitution ... Nearly four centuries later, in 2017, the Putney Debates were revived. The constitutional controversies aroused by the referendum in 2016 on Britain's membership of the European Union were the stimulus ... This volume results from the 2019 debates on the subject of the courts ... The following chapters, with one exception, began with the presentations at Putney in March 2019 ... The debate was made possible by the sponsorship of the Foundation for Law Justice & Society, an independent institute, which has now ceased activities but was at the time affi liated with Oxford University