Introduction

The focus of my talk will be inconsistent decisions and I think it is evident from the speakers that we have already heard, that this is fairly central to the issues being addressed at this conference. There have been a couple of recent high profile examples of what can only be described as inconsistent decisions, but, in the time available, I am not going to delve into much detail on those cases, as I suspect that most of you are aware of them in any event. But, for those of you who are not, I will very briefly describe the two examples I have in mind. First are the ...