During the Covid-19 pandemic, the British state has exercised coercive powers over itscitizens on a scale never previously attempted. It has taken effective legal control,enforced by the police, over the personal lives of the entire population: where they couldgo, whom they could meet, what they could do even within their own homes.
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This is an edited version of the the Cambridge Freshfields Annual Law Lecture, which Lord Sumption delivered on 27 October
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