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EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION: MAGNA CARTA EDITION
I am delighted to announce the publication of our Magna Carta 2015
Special Edition of the Denning Law Journal. Each of our contributors has
explored the impact the foundation stone of Magna Carta has had on the
development of human rights principles cast in pillars of eternity and owing in
no small part to the Magna Carta and the movement for reform. Magna Carta
has etched its legacy into the contemporary living instruments of our law as
indeed has the judgments of our patron Lord Denning himself.
Many Law schools publish their own law journals. In the United
Kingdom, these are often edited by faculty staff. At the University of
Buckingham, the Law School staff edit and publish an annual journal - The
Denning Law Journal (external link). It is named after the most famous and
influential judicial figure of the century 20th Century, Lord Denning (1899 -
1999). He was a made a judge at 45 years of age and was promoted to the
Court of Appeal [a mere] four years later. His judgments were always lucid.
Simple words were the tools of his trade, communication and persuasion, in
simple speech and not flamboyant gestures. In his book The Discipline of Law
he said, To succeed in the profession of the law, you must seek to cultivate
command of language. Words are the lawyer's tools of trade. When you are
called upon to address a judge, it is your words which count most
(Butterworths 1979, p 5). He had a unique style of judgment writing, a master
of evocative story telling. 'It was bluebell time in Kent' formed part of the
opening of his judgment in a case of death and personal injury witnessed by
Mrs Hinz (Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40).When he died in 1999 the then Lord
Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, said: The name Denning was a byword for
the law itself. His judgments were models of simple English which ordinary
people understood. He stood for the interests of fairness and justice.
Lord Denning was an enthusiastic supporter of the fledgling university at
Buckingham. It seemed natural when the Journal was founded in 1986 to
name it after him. We were greatly honoured when he consented to the use of
his name. When he celebrated his 100th birthday in January 1999, more than
170 lawyers and judges gathered at the University of Buckingham for the
Denning Centenary Symposium.
The Denning Law Journal is a refereed journal. The aim is to provide a
forum for the widest discussion of issues arising in the common law world
and to embrace the wider global and international issues of contemporary
concern, both of which Lord Denning would have approved. He also
recognised the importance of: -
* developing the common law
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