One of the greatest of all English common lawyers,Lord Atkin it was
who asked the question in Donoghue v. Stevenson 'Who then in law is
my neighbour?' which became the foundation of the whole modern law
of negligence. His courageous dissent in the wartime detention case
of Liversidge v. Anderson is now recognised as a historic stand on
principle. This book contains absorbing accounts of the background
to these two great cases, as well as an assessment of their
significance in the legal history of this century. It is the only
legal biography of its kind. Instead of taking the conventional
narrative form it treats individually the principal themes of Lord
Atkin's decisions and illuminates some less well known aspects of
his work including the critical series of Canadian constitutional
appeals in 1936. In showing the strong influence on his thinking of
Lord Atkin's home life and upbringing in the Welsh countryside,
this study confirms Lord Wright's conclusion that it was first and
foremost a liberal spirit which animated Atkin's work. This is a
reprint of a work first published by Butterworths in 1983.
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