sentences:  The report's recommendations attracted considerable public debate, including a famous exchange of views in publications by Lord Devlin, a leading British judge, whose ideas and publications argued against the report's philosophical basis, and H. L. A. Hart, a leading jurisprudential scholar, who provided argument in its support.In "The Enforcement of Morals", Devlin states that the Wolfenden report "is recognized to be an excellent study of two very difficult legal and social problems".Devlin attacks the principle, derived from John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty", that the law ought not concern itself with "private immorality", saying that the report "requires special circumstances to be shown to justify the intervention of the law.