![handle is hein.journals/denlj25 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
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
* the need for judicial and community recognition of the urgency of reform
and modernisation of law
* the need to preserve the traditions of judicial independence, integrity and
creativity
* reflecting upon the interplay between law and morality
* the role to be played by the law in the defence of the individual in the
modem state.
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