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Law, Language and Legal Determinacy by Brian Bix Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, x + 197 + (bibliography and index) 23 pp (hardback £25.00).

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Legal Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , July 1994 , pp. 277 - 281
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1994

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References

1 All page and chapter references in parentheses in the text are to this book.

2 By J. Waldron The Irrelevance of Moral Objectivity in R George (ed), Natural Law Theory (Oxford, Clarendon 1992).

3 L. Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations (Oxford, Basil Blackwell 3rd edn 1968) s124.

4 Quoted in E. Gellner Words and Things (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1959) p v.

5 See H. F. Pitkin Wirtgenstein and Justice (Berkeley, University of California Press 1972). pp xi-xii.

6 Examples of those in social, political and moral theory allegedly writing under the influence of Wittgenstein are: Pitkin, supra, n 5; A.R. Louch Explanation and Social Understanding (Berkley, University of California Press 1966); P. Winch The Idea of a Social Science (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1958); S. Lovibond Realism and Imagination in Ethics (Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1983).

1 Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill (1994), Part V.

2 Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill (1994). Part I.

3 Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill (1994). clause 27.

4 Note the new boundaries of an action for misfeasance in public office detailed by the House of Lords in Racz v Home Office [1994] 1 All ER 97.

5 Eg in Thynne, Wilson and Gunnell v UK (1990) 13 EHRR 666.

6 Eg Griswold v Connecticut 381 US 419 (1965).

7 Such as the Data Protection Act 1984.

8 D. Feldman The Law Relating to Entry, Search and Seizure (London: Butterworths, 1986).

9 [1991] 2WLR 782.

10 [1993] 4 All ER 975.

11 R. Goode ‘The European Law School’ (1993) 13 LS, p 14.

12 Campbell and Cosans v UK (1982) 4 EHRR 301 at para 25.

13 25/3/1993 (89/1991/341/414).

14 The place where most of the book was written: see p viii.