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Atkin Lecture by Lord Justice Beatson - Judicial Independence: Internal and External Challenges and Opportunities



It is a great honour to be invited to give this lecture. Lord Atkin's paradigm changing speech in Donoghue v Stevenson and his dissent in Liversidge v Anderson are known to all lawyers and law students, but his illuminating contributions stretch across many areas of private and public law. Professor Robert Stevens, a pioneer of scholarship on the judiciary in this country and a member of this club, stated that "between 1930 and 1940, no law lord had greater influence in the House of Lords" .

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