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18 Denning L.J. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/denlj18 and id is 1 raw text is: THE DENNING LAW JOURNAL PAYING JUDGES: WHY, WHO, WHOM, HOW MUCH? NEILL LECTURE 2006 Michael J Beloff QC* My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a great privilege for me to be invited to deliver the 5 th Neill Lecture following in the footsteps of such legal giants of our time as Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Woolf of Barnes, Lord Steyn and Lord Hoffman, just as the page followed in the footsteps of Good King Wenceslas in the snowy wastes of Bohemia.1 After four aces the Fellows of All Souls have clearly opted to play the Joker. Pat Neill, the honorand, is fit to be ranked with Tom and Harry, not to speak of Johann and Lenny, in the annals of the law although he abstained from taking judicial appointment in this country. Instead, like a modern Pooh Bear, he became Lord High everything else, notably - I make a judicious selection - Warden of All Souls, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the Press Council, Chairman of the Committee of Standards in Public Life and Treasurer of Gray's Inn. My path has crossed with Pat's at several junctures. We appeared against each other in court, most memorably in a case in the Privy Council Ng Enterprises v Urban Council,2 which involved an issue of major constitutional importance, namely whether my client could continue to sell Mister Softie ice cream in Hong Kong from mobile vans. There were no Mr Softies in the Privy Council and they acceded unanimously to Pat's argument that regulation of an activity could sometimes, if not always, include its outright prohibition. * MA (Oxon) FRSA, FICPD, FaSS, Hon D Lit Hum (Fairleigh Dickinson), President of Trinity College, Oxford, Senior Ordinary Appeal Judge of Jersey and Guernsey, Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn, Vice-Chairman of the Information Tribunal, Member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Honorary Fellow Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. I must thank Lord Justice Thomas, Mr Justice Breyer (USA), Mr Justice Van Zyl (SA), Malcolm Holmes, QC (Australia), Pathma Selvadurai (Singapore), Timothy Castle, (New Zealand), Dr Charles Parkinson (Australia), Joanna Innes (Fellow of Somerville), and John Baker, Chairman of the SSRB for their assistance in obtaining material for this lectures, delivered under the auspices of All Souls College in the Examination Schools at Oxford University on the 27th January 2006. 2 1997 AC 168.

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