- Title Pages
- Quotes
- Preface
- Note to the Paperback Edition
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Invention of Executive Detention
- 2 Regulation 14B and its Progeny
- 3 Emergency Planning between the Wars
- 4 The Commons Revolt
- 5 Detention during the Phoney War
- 6 The Defeat of Liberalism
- 7 Fascism and the Fears of 1940
- 8 The British Fifth Column
- 9 The Great Incarceration Begins
- 10 It Might Have Happened to You!
- 11 The Experience of Detention
- 12 The Bureaucracy under Stress
- 13 The Integrity of the Advisory Committee
- 14 The Early Challenges in the Courts
- 15 The Courts in Confusion
- 16 The Web of Suspicion
- 17 The Leading Cases in Context
- 18 The Declining Years of Regulation 18B
- 19 Death and Post Mortem
- Appendix I The Principal Texts
- Appendix II Note on Sources
- Appendix III Spy Trials
- Appendix IV Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkoff
- Appendix V Mosley's ‘Reasons for Order’
- Bibliography Of Principal Works Cited
- Index
The Courts in Confusion
The Courts in Confusion
- Chapter:
- (p.316) 15 The Courts in Confusion
- Source:
- In the Highest Degree Odious
- Author(s):
A. W. Brian Simpson
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In 1941, a number of detainees had recourse to the courts, including Captain Charles H. Bentinck Budd, Arthur C. H. Campbell, Ben Greene, John Mason, and Captain George H. L.-F. Pitt-Rivers. There were possibly others; some actions were formally begun, as by Oswald Mosley and Maule Ramsay, but were never actually pursued. In addition, J. R. Smeaton-Stuart after his release tried to collect damages for false imprisonment. Of these litigants, Greene and Liversidge went to the House of Lords. Mason's arrest was of some political significance since he was a communist shop steward. He was detained as being ‘involved in attempts to slow down war production’ and therefore guilty of ‘acts prejudicial’. The officials also knew that a further embarrassing case was in the pipeline, that of Campbell. He had been in the British Union until 1937.
Keywords: Arthur C. H. Campbell, John Mason, courts, detainees, Oswald Mosley, British Union, false imprisonment, acts prejudicial
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- Title Pages
- Quotes
- Preface
- Note to the Paperback Edition
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Invention of Executive Detention
- 2 Regulation 14B and its Progeny
- 3 Emergency Planning between the Wars
- 4 The Commons Revolt
- 5 Detention during the Phoney War
- 6 The Defeat of Liberalism
- 7 Fascism and the Fears of 1940
- 8 The British Fifth Column
- 9 The Great Incarceration Begins
- 10 It Might Have Happened to You!
- 11 The Experience of Detention
- 12 The Bureaucracy under Stress
- 13 The Integrity of the Advisory Committee
- 14 The Early Challenges in the Courts
- 15 The Courts in Confusion
- 16 The Web of Suspicion
- 17 The Leading Cases in Context
- 18 The Declining Years of Regulation 18B
- 19 Death and Post Mortem
- Appendix I The Principal Texts
- Appendix II Note on Sources
- Appendix III Spy Trials
- Appendix IV Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkoff
- Appendix V Mosley's ‘Reasons for Order’
- Bibliography Of Principal Works Cited
- Index
