The late legendary Rt Hon Mr Tony Benn declared open the National Critical Lawyers’ Group Conference held Saturday 24th and Sunday 25 February 2007. His keynote address has never been heard again until now and WARN is happy to bring this original tape to life for your listening pleasure. His message remains relevant and resonates clearly in relation to developments in national and international life today. The issues he raised range from survival of the monarchy, republicanism, power and privilege, occupation and oppression in Palestine, democracy, legal rights, digital and online invasion of privacy, lack of transparency in government, war and peace, failure of the United Nations, illegality of invasion of Iraq, Iran's nuclear dreams and the double standards of the West, globalisation, and the crucial relationship between knowledge and truth. Tony handed this recording of his own voice to me personally at the end of the opening ceremony as a gift when I asked him for a copy of his speech to be included in a Proceedings of the Conference which I planned to edit along with (now Late) Ian Grig Spall (another legend). Tony Benn said something along the lines 'I don't have a written speech -just these scribbled notes but do have this cassette and do with it whatever you like in furtherance of your task'. The Proceedings book was never published but I kept this tape for many years and did nothing until this year when I got it digitised at the University of Kent, Templeman Library. It is now part of the University of Kent Archive (UKA). The WARN has decided to host it here along with a soon to be released edited collection of the proceedings of that conference which is also to be published for the first time. Melius sero quam numquam (better late than never).