Law-making in the Falklands

How I saw conveyancing modernised in the South Atlantic

This spring marks the 40th anniversary of the Falklands war. A year or so after it ended, the BBC thought it would be a good idea to see how the Falklanders were coping with the transformation of their long-forgotten, wind-swept islands in the South Atlantic into a strategic military base.

In the autumn of 1983, I was a non-specialist reporter for BBC Ra…