Walter H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard from 1921 until 1945, brought back from retirement at the outbreak of war.

Tom Hickman's authorised biography draws heavily on extracts from a manuscript recently discovered by his great-niece, in which Thompson gives a unique insider's account of a number of occasions on which Churchill's life was put seriously at risk and his intervention was needed.

After the war, Thompson married one of Churchill's secretaries, and her recollections, as well as those of surviving family members, are interwoven to tell the revelatory inside story...

What is the UK's Human Rights Act? What is its relationship to the common law? Is there a need to invent new doctrines of UK public law to accommodate the Act? Will it lead to the extinction of established doctrines? What should be the effect of the Act on the structure of public law as a whole? Remarkably, 10 years after the Act came into effect, these questions remain unanswered. Public Law After the Human Rights proposes an understanding of the Act's constitutional status and its effect on public law that answers each of them. Unlike other books on the Human Rights Act, the book looks...

Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom provides essential commentary on the Human Rights Act 1998 and examines the impact of human rights obligations on legislation. Based on Grosz, Beatson & Duffy's Human Rights-The 1998 Act and the European Convention, Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom examines the different ways in which human rights are protected by the domestic courts. Guidance on how sections of the Act need to be interpreted are provided, as well as an explanation of common law, European Union law, devolution legislation and other statutes. ...