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	Lord Denning
		Denning spent twenty years as the Master of the Rolls, presiding over the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal, after five years as a Law Lord, shifting to the Court of Appeal at his request because he was happier with that post than one in the more senior court.
		Court of Appeal judges sit in threes, and the Lords in fives (or more), so it was suggested that to get his way in the Court of Appeal Denning only had to persuade one other judge whereas in the House of Lords it was at least two.
		Many of Denning's efforts to change the law were vindicated by the passage of time (and legislation) — in particular, his efforts to establish an abandoned wives' equity, small print exemption clauses, inequality of bargaining power, negligent mis-statement, liability of public authorities, and contractual interpretation.
	www.denninglawjournal.com /index_files/Page641.htm (483 words)

	Lord Denning
		Lord Denning, "the greatest and most colourful judge this century has known," was a graduate and Hon.
		Lord Denning is an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.
		Lord Denning was President of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship (U.K.) from 1950 - 1987, and was the Patron until his death in 1999.
	www.ciltpp.com /bio_denn.htm (126 words)

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		Lord Denning had a reputation as a legal innovator who did not feel restricted by literal interpretations of statutes.
		Lord Denning publicly apologised and said he abhorred the idea that anyone was a second-class citizen.
		Lord Denning's last case had to do with cabbage seeds, and the judgement was typical of his style: short, crisp sentences in a language accessible to lay people.
	members.lycos.co.uk /law365/issue1/denning.htm (684 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Lord's century: Denning at 100
		Denning quickly shined in the legal profession and was called to the bar in 1923; "took silk" - became a King's Counsel - at 40, a high court judge five years later, and, in 1948, was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal.
		Lord Denning more or less invented the doctrine that a deserted wife was entitled to share her husband's property.
		Lord Denning, the oldest peer in the House of Lords, is registered blind and relies on a hearing aid.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/260718.stm (969 words)

	Tom Denning, Baron Denning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Thompson 'Wesley' Denning, Baron Denning, OM, PC (23 January 1899 – 5 March 1999) was an English jurist, judge and barrister from Hampshire, who became a Law Lord and Master of the Rolls (the senior civil judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales).
		Lord Denning was a judge for 38 years before retiring at the age of 83 in 1982.
		Denning was especially known for challenging the principle of stare decisis (binding judicial precedent) during his tenure in the Court of Appeal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Denning (2158 words)

	Guardian \| Lord Denning, controversial 'people's judge', dies aged 100
		Lord Denning, the most celebrated English judge of the 20th century, died yesterday just six weeks after his 100th birthday, leaving an unprecedented mark on the development of English law.
		Lord Hailsham, when Lord Chancellor, said: "The trouble with Tom Denning is he's always re-making the law and we never know where we are." Yesterday he said Lord Denning "was obviously a very great judge and he will go down in history as one of the great and controversial judges of the 20th century".
		Lord Denning died peacefully at the Hampshire county hospital in Winchester early yesterday.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3832330-103690,00.html (1172 words)

	Tom Denning, Baron Denning Summary
		Denning married Mary Harvey, the daughter of the Vicar of Whitchurch, in 1932 and the couple had one son, Robert, who eventually became a professor of chemistry at Oxford University.
		In October 1945 Denning was transferred to the King's Bench Division and became the Chairman of the Committee on Procedure in Matrimonial Causes.
		Lord Denning was a judge for 38 years, before retiring at the age of 83 in 1982, and was generally well liked, both within the legal profession and outside it.
	www.bookrags.com /Tom_Denning,_Baron_Denning (3121 words)

	Eastern Book Company - Practical Lawyer
		[2] Though the House of Lords did not approve of the view of Lord Denning and described it as "a naked usurpation of the legislative function",[3] it cannot be gainsaid that in interpreting a statute, a Judge should not be oblivious and ignorant of justice.
		Lord Denning was a champion of personal liberty and individual freedom, but not at the cost of interest of society at large.
		Lord Scarman said: "He was the finest Judge that I ever met in my time, one of my heroes." Lord Woolf, the present Master of the Rolls remembers how Lord Denning guided him when he was a young advocate.
	www.ebc-india.com /lawyer/articles/9904a1.htm (2496 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Denning: A life of law
		Lord Denning was perhaps the greatest law-making judge of the century and the most controversial.
		When the scandal broke Lord Denning was asked by the Conservative Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, to inquire into security aspects of the affair.
		Lord Denning inspired great affection among lawyers and it gave him pleasure to welcome new recruits to the profession.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/290996.stm (658 words)

	FAREWELL LORD DENNING by Phillip Taylor
		News that Lord Denning died on March 6th 1999 at the age of 100 was greeted with universal sadness by his many friends at the Bar and to the wider public.
		To generations of law students, Lord Denning was held in the highest regard as a visionary amid the complexities and pomposity of the law.
		It was always a privilege to meet Lord Denning who was a charming man possessed of a twinkling good humour which I, and many others, will certainly never forget.
	www.malet.com /farewell_lord_denning_by_phillip.htm (395 words)

	The Sunday Times Hulftsdorp Hill
		Lord Denning was the Master of the Rolls in England and he is considered one of the great modern Judges of England.
		Lord Denning, 83, gave last year's Bristol Riot trial as an example of a packed Jury overloaded with what he described as coloured people, he then claimed that fl coloured and brown people did not have the same standard of conduct as whites.
		Lord Denning made a public apology to the coloured people of England, and his book was withdrawn from the sales outlets and the offending passages were removed.
	lakdiva.org /suntimes/971207/mudli.html (1219 words)

	Lord Denning MR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lord Denning MR Lord Denning MR After the case of Wachtel v.
		The case was then heard by Lord Denning MR (then Master of the Rolls), sitting with Phillimore and Roskill LJJ, who are therefore also implicated.
		The most glaring corruption is that Denning says "In most cases both parties are to blame- or, as we would prefer to say-both parties have contributed to the breakdown".
	www.ukmm.org.uk /issues/shame/denning.htm (218 words)

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		The new school, led perhaps by Lord Denning, though his views may be too extreme to be representative, implicitly deny this onmi-competence and insist that it is for the courts to fill in legislative gaps by constructive, purposive reasoning, perhaps drawing on materials and values outside the four walls of the statute.
		Lord Denning's Court of Appeal had granted an injunction sought by a private steel producer against the steel worker union pickets when, in an attempt to bring the dispute between themselves and the British Steel Corporation to a conclusion, efforts were made to extend the dispute from the public to the private sector.
		For Lord Diplock, in particular, it was all a bit too much and he took Lord Denning very firmly to task, directing towards him a lecture in elementary constitutional law, full of allusions to the separation of powers, the judicial duty of obedience to Parliament and the impropriety of usurping the legislative function.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~lawf0013/P'SOV699.htm (5172 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
		In 1944, Denning was knighted and appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice.
		Lord Denning continued as the Master of Rolls till September 29, 1982.
		Denning’s ruling was reversed by the House of Lords.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000402/spectrum/main4.htm (1194 words)

	Lintz CC OnLine - In The Media
		Denning sat alone and in private, even sending out the lady shorthand writers because he thought some of the evidence was so disgusting.
		Lord Denning (Library Interview): Parliament does it too late, it may take years and years before a statute can be passed to amend a bad law, and it doesn’t affect the actual individual.
		Lord Irvine (Lord Chancellor, Interview): He was creative, imaginative, he was often ahead of the field, ahead of the game and what he said at the time appeared to be orthodox and then it became orthodoxy.
	members.tripod.com /geordieboy/media.htm (886 words)

	Chp 3, Part II: A Special Operation
		Denning states that his brother, who was an officer with British Naval Intelligence, was working on duty late at night in an underground subterranean area that was between Ten Downing Street and an underground shelter where Churchill used to stay during bombing attacks.
		It was in 1862 that Lord Oliphant came back from his job as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Turkey, imbued with the spirit that something happens to men's minds in seances.
		In fact Lord Balfour, for over 30 years, was either the head of the British Society of Psychic Research or one of his relatives or close associates was.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/JFK/USO/chp3_p2.html (10700 words)

	Lord Denning (1899 – 1999): An Appreciation
		Tom Denning was unafraid of controversy and insisted on speaking the truth even if it would be taken as sensationalistic or unpopular.
		Denning was a broadly and deeply educated person, the very opposite of the dry-as-dust stereotype of the lawyer.
		Lord Denning’s battles, as Master of the Rolls, with the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords are legendary.
	www.trinitysem.edu /journal/5-2/lord_denning.htm (916 words)

	Department for Constitutional Affairs - Speeches - Delivering Justice: Britain's Role Abroad
		Lord Denning is famous for having adapted the genre of legal judgment with his own brand of narrative story-telling.
		The Lord Chancellor's Department was responsible for the administration of the courts and the appointment of judges.
		I am grateful for the opportunity to give the Lord Denning Memorial Lecture, and ultimately, most of all, because it has helped me to continue considering what that ethos requires and to understand its requirements in the context of the new work that my Department is taking on as it helps to deliver justice abroad.
	www.dca.gov.uk /speeches/2003/hp010503.htm (3461 words)

	The Paisley Snail: - The Lord Denning Interview - Donoghue vs. Stevenson
		The Lord Denning Interview : A 35 minute interview with Lord Denning, on the subject of Donoghue vs. Stevenson.
		Lord Denning was 96 years old at the time and this interview is one of the last, if not the last, he gave in his life.
		In this fascinating interview Denning talks about the underlying Christian principles that inspired Lord Atkin’s decision while revealing how a case in New York influenced Lord Atkin, and describes the ramifications of Atkin’s decision.
	www.thepaisleysnail.com /denning.shtml (357 words)

	LawAfrica -Hot From The Bench
		Acidly commenting on Lord Devlin’s decision in Rookes v Barnard that sought to limit the award of exemplary damages in tort, Lord Denning’s obiter in Broome v Cassell stands proudly erect as a monument to the epic battle between the gods and the Titans on the judicial Mount Olympus.
		In his innovative ratio, Lord Devlin clarified the precise meaning of terms used to refer to damages ‘at large.’ Juries were instructed to give a sum for compensation of the plaintiff’s injury, which sum may be aggravated because of the defendant’s conduct.
		Lord Denning in Ward v James [1965] 1 All ER 563 was of the contrary opinion, urging trial judges not to refer juries to other awards in personal injury cases.
	www.lawafrica.com /HOTB/hotb16.asp (2407 words)

	Lord Lane - the Lord Chief Justice 1980 - 92
		Lord Lane saw in Margaret Thatcher's moves to reform the system of justice, the most serious threat to the independence of the judiciary since the seventeenth century.
		When he dismissed the appeal of the Birmingham Six in 1988, Lord Lane and his fellow judges said "the longer this hearing goes on, the more convinced this court has become that the verdict of the jury was correct".
		This is the story of how the Lord Chief Chief Justice Lord Lane in 1985 used foul means in an attempt to stop a campaigning BBC programme series and the scandalous manner in which the BBC responded.
	www.btinternet.com /~peter.hill34/st09.htm (1129 words)

	Eastern Book Company - Practical Lawyer
		Dr Forsyth mentions that Lord Denning, Lord Diplock and Wade were the architects of the modern law of judicial review of administrative action, as an “ever-present safeguard against the abuse of governmental power”.
		Lord Diplock remarked that the creation of a comprehensive system of administrative law “was the greatest achievement of the English courts in my judicial lifetime”.
		As Lord Denning once said, ‘if tribunals were at liberty to exceed their jurisdiction without any check by the courts, the rule of law would be at an end’.
	www.ebc-india.com /lawyer/articles/2004v5a1.htm (1963 words)

	The Legal Philosophers: The Jurists.
		For legal philosophers, however, Francis Bacon is most well known for his delineation of the principles of the inductive scientific method, which constituted a breakthrough in the approach to science.
		Lord Denning was one of the leaders of the English bench and bar.
		Educated in Oxford, Lord Denning was called to the bar in 1923 and appointed a judge in 1944 and was to eventually become the Master of the Rolls (1962-1982).
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Law/Jurists.htm (2897 words)

	Hampshire County Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		LORD DENNING'S 100TH BIRTHDAY Hampshire County Council marked Lord Denning's 100th birthday on Saturday by presenting him with a booklet written for the occasion.
		Entitled 'Lord Denning, A Hampshire Man', the booklet is made up of pages from Lord Denning's own archive which since 1986 has been held at Hampshire Record Office.
		The booklet was presented to Lord Denning at his home in Whitchurch by Councillor Captain Michael Boyle, Chairman of Hampshire County Council, and Councillor Freddie Emery-Wallis, Leader of the Council.
	www.hants.gov.uk /cxpuxn/c189.html (218 words)

	judge who retired unhurt, The Spectator, The - Find Articles
		As with Lord Radcliffe, a more etiolated character whom he nevertheless resembled in several ways, the law was never the whole of his life.
		Having been made a High Court judge at 42, a Lord Justice of Appeal at 45 and a Law Lord a year later, he retired from his legal duties in the Upper House at the early age of 58, as soon as he had qualified for a pension.
		Lord Goddard, one of his mentors, wanted Devlin to succeed him at some time as Lord Chief Justice.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199704/ai_n8778644 (818 words)

	Hadmor Productions v. Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lord Denning held this was tortious, founding his reasoning on causing harm by unlawful means, against which there was no immunity following the repeal in 1980 of TULRA 13(3).
		Indeed, Lord Denning reasoned that the repeal of 13(3) positively implied the existence of the tort.
		Lord Diplock's speech in Lonrho ([1981] 2 All E.R. at pp.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/pntodd/cases/cases_h/hadmor.htm (393 words)

	Law: The Denning Law Journal
		Lord Denning was an enthusiastic supporter of the fledgling university at Buckingham.
		The Denning Law Journal is such a refereed journal.
		The aim is to provide a forum for the widest discussion of issues arising in the common law and to embrace the wider global and international issues of contemporary concern both of which Lord Denning would have approved:
	www.buckingham.ac.uk /law/aboutdept/denning.html (310 words)

	John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She later became the first woman to be a member of the City of London Court of Common Council, the first female alderman, the first female sheriff and, finally, in 1983, the first female Lord Mayor of London.
		He replaced Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls in 1982, becoming the presiding officer of the civil division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, where he pushed forward modernisation efforts, including the introduction of skeleton arguments in civil appeals, judgments being "handing down" rather than read, and enhanced case management.
		In the 2000-2001 session of Parliament, he presented a Private Member's Bill in the House of Lords (the Parliament Acts (Amendment) Bill), which would have had the effect of confirming the legitimacy of the Parliament Act 1949 to address concerns raised by legal academics as to whether the use of the Act was valid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Donaldson_of_Lymington (750 words)

	BARRY ROSE
		Lord Denning: A Legend in his Lifetime: Edmund Heward.
		Lord Radcliffe was one of the post-war 'Great and the Good' - chairman of many Royal Commissions and Inquiries as well as having been highly successful at the Bar with rapid promotion to the Bench.
		Haldane was in many respects an enigmatic character - in 1912 he became Lord Chancellor but was forced to resign the Wool sack due to a campaign of vilification whipped up during the First World War in respect of alleged pro - German sympathies.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/rob_jerrard/RecentB.htm (895 words)

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