'Rage at Westsinster':: Sociolegal reflections on the power of sale

This article analyses several diverse strands of Westminster City Council's unlawful policy of selling off council homes; one of the most significant. political scandals of the 1980s and 1990s. After setting out the story-of the events and adjudications in this saga, the article considers three discursive sites: political constructions of ownership, law's constructions, and constructions of law. The latter two sites are located within a discussion of law's power and law's powerlessness.