Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Export ban on judge's Lady Chatterley
The government has temporarily blocked the export of a book used by the judge in one of Britain's most famous trials.
DH Lawrence's controversial novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was at the centre of an obscenity trial in 1960.
The paperback copy includes sexually explicit passages marked up by judge Sir Laurence Byrne's wife Lady Dorothy.
The new owner of the book, which sold for £56,250 last year, plans to take it abroad but UK buyers now have until October to match that sum.
The prosecution of Penquin Boooks was seen as an important landmark in ushering in the "permissive" society.
The Judge screwed up the prosecution case by asking the Jury if they would "allow their servants" to read the book. The whole of the UK laughed at the old buffer and the 60s was ushered in.
The government has temporarily blocked the export of a book used by the judge in one of Britain's most famous trials.
DH Lawrence's controversial novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was at the centre of an obscenity trial in 1960.
The paperback copy includes sexually explicit passages marked up by judge Sir Laurence Byrne's wife Lady Dorothy.
The new owner of the book, which sold for £56,250 last year, plans to take it abroad but UK buyers now have until October to match that sum.
The prosecution of Penquin Boooks was seen as an important landmark in ushering in the "permissive" society.
The Judge screwed up the prosecution case by asking the Jury if they would "allow their servants" to read the book. The whole of the UK laughed at the old buffer and the 60s was ushered in.