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Emilios A Christodoulidis & Wilson Finnie, "How the Ace of Trumps Failed to Win the Trick", Res Publica I/2 [1995], 131-146: The article examines a highly political piece of protest against the Poll tax in Scotland and its treatment by the Scottish courts. It argues that the absence of an entrenched Bill of Rights and a lack of commitment to upholding the principle of the protection of free speech in the common law, allowed the judicial system to dispose of a case raising acute civil liberties issues as merely an exercise in legal technicalities and to do this without any reference to the civil liberties issues themselves. Postal address: Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL. e-mails: Emilios.Christodoulidis@ed.ac.uk, Wilson.Finnie@ed.ac.uk

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