Lord Atkin

by Geoffrey Lewis

Book Overview

One of the greatest of all English common lawyers, Lord Atkin, asked the question in Donoghue v. Stevenson, Who then in law is my neighbor?, 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 recognized 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0406272107
• ISBN13: 9780406272102
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Lexis Law Publishing (Va)
• Length: 288 Pages