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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Jul 10, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026
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  1. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · Owen Bowcott

    Sir Roy Goode obituary (opens the original)

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    Pillar of English commercial law who served on the inquiry behind the establishment of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 Keen to fill his evenings after work as a young lawyer in an Essex solicitor’s office, Roy Goode, who left school at 16, decided he ought to write a book. He was not, however, sure what subject to choose. Leafing alphabetically through titles in a legal reference volume, he came across the topic of hire purchase. He knew nothing about such credit arrangements, but noticed no one ha

  2. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Owen Bowcott

    Michael Oatley obituary (opens the original)

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    MI6 officer who held secret meetings with the IRA during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland Shortly before retiring from MI6 in 1991, Michael Oatley received a call in from a trusted contact in Derry asking him to attend a meeting. The invitation was from Brendan Duddy, a businessman, who for almost two decades had kept open a back channel for secret communications between the government and the Provisional IRA. Oatley, who has died aged 90, maintained the relationship over that peri

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