Visiting The National Archives website is becoming more and more worthwhile: dispense with any mid 20th century notion that might linger in your subconscious that it is little more than a catalogue! Michael Hopkins of Liverpool University has reviewed what this new resource of Cabinet Papers offers (or not) (click here). I will just point out that the Papers have been grouped by theme, one of which is Law, Liberty and society.
Within this theme you can drill down through various links to discover Cabinet musings on – as an example- the changes in the law relating to murder and the abolition of the death penalty.