The Equity of Human Rights – The Atkin Lecture 2009

November 15, 2009 | No Comments

by Lord Neuburger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls

A lecture on Lord Atkin’s significant conrtribution to the development of the common law in the 20th century, including, among others, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932 AC 562] and Bell v Lever Brothers [1932 Ac 161].

“Victory without law and the rule of just law would have been no victory at all. That is what Lord Atkin teaches us. That is what the clash between Caesar, Clodius and Cicero teaches us. It is what our commitment to constitutionality, the rule of just law and to human rights, such as the right to fair trial and the right to liberty and security teaches us. It is a commitment to, as I said at the outset, the equity of human rights.”

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