Status Updates From The Trial of Lady Chatterle...

Interesting how contemporary some of the points raised in the prosecution and the judge’s summing ups seem. The point about experts echoes Michael Gove’s assertion during the EU referendum. In essence, ignore experts. Likewise, some points appear very much like a nanny state, we cannot trust individuals to understand literature, and draw their own conclusions. We must protect them from potentially depraved material.

There was no doubt that the prosecution and the Bench were flabbergasted to be hearing what they heard. The views of apparently respectable professional men and women. Chaos it must have seemed to Mr Justice-Byrne, had come again