What was Hart Devlins debate on the Wolfenden Report?

Answer 1

The Wolfenden report, after Lord Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee, was the Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution , published in Britain on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences. The report's recommendations attracted considerable public debate, including a famous exchange of views in publications by Lord Devlin, a leading British judge, whose speeches and publications argued against the report's philosophical basis, and H.L.A. Hart, a leading jurisprudential scholar, who provided argument in its support.