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Denman questioned Disraeli as to the government’s intentions given that, at least since Lord Brougham’s Interpretation Act of 1857, the term ‘man’ imported ‘woman’ unless there was express provision to the contrary. Disraeli’s reply was ambiguous; the matter was, he said, for ‘the gentlemen of the long robe’. Denman was dissatisfied; in his view, the courts would be constrained to decide the point in favour of women. About the same time, Mr Chisholm Anstey, a barrister described as ‘the champion of the Suffrage cause in law, as Mr.
Many people believe that it all started in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the famous Supreme Court ruling which ended racial segregation in state schools. Nothing could be further from the truth. The use of law by pressure groups to achieve reform and to establish rights may be as old as pressure groups themselves. Long before the twentieth century, test cases and pressure-group litigation can be identified in Britain. ABOLITIONISTS IN COURT To make this point more graphically, let us look a little more closely at one of the most celebrated cases ever fought in an English court of law.
But there was no official enforcement machinery. It was always open to individuals to supply the deficiency and they sometimes did so. In 1840, Shaftesbury’s own diary records his pleasure in two successful actions: in addition to advancing the cause, he rejoiced, ‘I stood to lose several hundred pounds, but I have not lost a farthing’ (Hodder 1893:301). Another notorious prosecution, for the manslaughter of a Manchester apprentice aged 7 who had died in a flue, led to the formation of the Climbing Boys’ Society, chaired by Lord Shaftesbury.