Schoolkids Oz

The trial of Oz editors Richard Neville, Felix Dennis, and Jim Anderson, for No.

28, Schoolkids Oz, was conducted at the Old Bailey, under the auspices of Judge Michael Argyle.

The defence lawyer was John Mortimer, QC, later the writer of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series.

In her "Oz Trial Post-Mortem", which was not published until it was included in The Madwoman's Underclothes (1986), the magazine's contributor Germaine Greer wrote: Before repressive tolerance became a tactic of the past, Oz could fool itself and its readers that, for some people at least, the alternative society already existed.

Instead of developing a political analysis of the state we live in, instead of undertaking the patient and unsparing job of education which must precede even a pre-revolutionary situation, Oz behaved as though the revolution had already happened.