The respondents submitted that that was not securing unauthorised access to the computer, but was securing access at an authorised level for an unauthorised purpose.They further submitted that section 5(2)(b) of the Data Protection Act 1984 made adequate provision for the prosecution of police officers who used the computer for non-police purposes: see R v Brown (Law Report, 13 February 1996) [1996] 1 All ER 545.The starting point was to consider the purpose of the 1990 Act. He had been the first appointee to a personal chair at Leicester University in 1963.By then he had already made his mark as a pioneer of Zola studies and as the foremost Zola critic in the English-speaking world. He had secured in 1948 an assistant lectureship at the University College of Leicester, where, with remarkable loyalty, he remained for almost 40 years until his complete retirement in 1985. After completing a first degree in languages at Exeter College, Oxford in 1941, he did war service decrypting German codes in the Army Intelligence Corps. In 1946 he returned to academic life in Oxford, completing his DPhil in 1949, a groundbreaking study that was published the following year by Oxford University Press, The Russian Novel in France 1884-1914. His seminal studies of Emile Zola and his works, for which he is best known, have gained him a lasting international reputation and have inspired generations of critics in the English-speaking world to turn their attention to a major writer whose novels were universally admired by the reading public but largely ignored by the academic community.
Frederick William John Hemmings was born in Southampton in 1920, and went to Taunton School, where his father was headmaster.

F W J. Hemmings has left a rich legacy of criticism on 19th- century French literature. His extraordinary record of scholarly achievements, spanning a career of 45 years of publication, represents the very best of traditional British literary criticism, largely impervious to more recent theoretical constructs but ever informed by daring insights and bold incursions into new areas of enquiry. This always struck me as being not unlike the purification rites that were practised in the ancient Greek Aesclepian?? temples of healing at Epidauros: before the possibility of healing could even be considered, one had first to prepare oneself totally to receive it: no shortcuts, no preconceptions.His practice was known for drawing a wide range of clientele from the rich and famous to the very ordinary: all of them, facing life’s vicissitudes with varying degrees of success, were fortunate to have had in Alan McGlashan a true ally of the soul.Robert HinshawAlan Fleming McGlashan, psychiatrist and writer: born Bedworth, Nottinghamshire 20 October 1898; married 1st 1934 Robin Cameron-Smith (died 1975), 2nd 1979 Sasha Baldi; died London 6 May 1997.. In the Sixties he wrote a popular series of booklets on such subjects as “Stress” and “Dreams and Dreamers”.

He was an avid glider pilot (holding certificate no 28, issued in 1930) and hot-air balloonist, and enjoyed playing tennis until well into his eighties. He was passionate about mythology and delivered a number of BBC broadcasts on the subjects of mythology and psychology.He took meticulous care in preparing himself for every analytic session – like a sacred ritual – so as to be open, receptive and alert for whatever might arise. In the course of his long life he was a prolific writer of articles (many on the dreaming mind) for the Lancet, the Observer, the Times (presciently, on “the personal factor in healing”), the Listener, Parabola and others (he contributed an essay, “Le sex et nous” to Suicide of a Nation, 1963, edited by Arthur Koestler), and giver of lectures in the UK and United States. The earliest myths and legends, which express man’s first magnificent leap towards meaning, are all alight with this quality of translucency Now alas, we know better. But although the archaic vision of life has been driven out of contemporary consciousness into the shadows, into a cobwebbed corner of the human mind, it lives on there with spiderish tenacity. For the archaic vision embodies, despite all its limitations and absurdities, a valid aspect of life’s meaning which may be devalued or simply forgotten, but can never be completely cancelled.McGlashan had written poetry since his boyhood and in 1931 published St George and the Dragon, a book of early poems.

He gives an account of his approach to the world in his foreword to The Savage and Beautiful Country:This book is concerned with attempting to reawaken the pristine human power of regarding the phenomena of the external world in a certain way: in such a way that they begin to grow translucent and to reveal something of the mystery that sustains them.In illo tempore, once upon a time, we were able to do this. He loved and was passionately concerned with the state of the world, and where it is heading; this was the driving force in his analytic work and his writing. No other single fact in all existence is so crushing to human ambition, so openly contemptuous of human values.In a nutshell, he saw our usual understanding of time as being either linear, cyclical or eternal, the latter being what he referred to as the “pure present”.It is no surprise that this deep and lifelong concern of his, relentlessly researched, experienced and reflected, led to another original McGlashan attitude:It would seem reasonable to consider the impertinent suggestion that time itself has a fourth dimension, hitherto disregarded, whose task it is to decide what quality of attention we should give to each of these three accepted dimensions of time. .Though he lived his last years, with the help of his wife Sasha, in what might be called creative introversion, seemingly in this fourth dimension, McGlashan was anything but a sage in his ivory tower.

In The Savage and Beautiful Country he writes:The quality in Time which most deeply of all offends man’s impatient spirit is not its swiftness but the maddening uniformity of its progress, moment following moment, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, while man looks helplessly on, unable to hasten or hinder. The subject was addressed at length in both of his last books, and it continued to be at the centre of his interest to the end. A new and expanded edition of Gravity and Levity: the philosophy of paradox (1976) appeared in 1994.But McGlashan’s greatest fascination was with the phenomenon of time, and in this regard he was a full-fledged philosopher. It was a so- called “underground classic”, particularly in the United States, and was revised and republished in 1988. In it he gives own speculative philosophy of life, beautifully crafted – jargon was anathema to him. He was close friends with the writer-explorer Sir Laurens van der Post and his wife Ingaret Giffard, and wrote his last essay, “How to be Haveable”, for a forthcoming Festschrift for van der Post, entitled The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow: Laurens van der Post among friends (1997).McGlashan’s best-known book is The Savage and Beautiful Country: the secret life of the mind (1966). He served as a country doctor in Surrey until 1937, switching to psychiatry only in 1939, which he continued to practise for another 58 years.While still studying to be a doctor he had stints as a dramatic critic on the Observer and News Chronicle (in 1923-24), and was a ship’s surgeon on a tramp steamer (1924-25).