Subjects:

Biographies and Legal Humour

Contents:

BOOK ONE

Retirement

SECTION ONE

My Last Months as Master

1. A calamitous fortnight

2. The summer term

3. The last day of the summer term

4. The long vacation

SECTION TWO

Autumn Leaves

1. A judge of silk

2. The cathedral at Winchester

3. Dinner at the Inner Temple

4. A luncheon at the Savoy

5. The cathedral at Norwich

6. Abortion in the Lords

7. A look at the Law Lords

8. The family at Christmas

SECTION THREE

Afterthoughts

1. Plain English

2. After Christmas - the water strike

3. The Sikh boy's turban

BOOK TWO

Discipline up to Date

SECTION FOUR

Statutory Interpretation again up to the Fore

SECTION FIVE

Public and Private Law - A New Dichotomy

1. The coming of judicial review

2. A notable difference

3. Law and politics

4. Remedies

5. Postscript

SECTION SIX

Trade Unions

Introduction

1. Up to the 1906 Act

2. The Industrial Relations Act 1971

3. The 1974 and the 1976 Acts

4. New legislation imperative

5. The 1980 Act

6. The closed shop

7. Trade Unions go 'poaching'

8. The European Convention

SECTION SEVEN

Conflicts in the Courts

Introduction

1. Locus standi

2. Liberty of the subject

3. The Mareva up to date

4. Who can get a Mareva?

5. Anton Piller up to date

6. Delay in arbitrations

7. Withdrawal clauses in charterparties

8. High Trees up to date

9. Interlocutary injunctions up to date

10. The difference in approach

11. Exemption clauses up to date

Epilogue

Index

The book contains a fascinating account of some of the leading issues of the day, in which Lord Denning has played a singular part. He discusses the problems of statutory interpretation, he traces the bumpy course of trade union legislation from 1906 to the present, and finally, he identifies the series of cases on which he and the Court of Appeal have been, or have appeared to have been, on collision course with the House of Lords.