The life of Thomas E. Scrutton / David Foxton.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

1st edition

83613

Scrutton, Thomas Edward, -- 1856-1934.

Lawyers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

1. Antecedents

2. A univeristy man

3. Pupil, professor, husband and politician

4. Patient, laborious asses : onwards and upwards

5. Copyright and author

6. The bench

7. The war and the law

8. At the height of his powers : 1919-1927

9. Scrutton the realist?

10. Old Scrutton.

David Foxton QC is one of the leaders of the commercial Bar in London, and well known to a number of Queensland lawyers who studied or practised in England. His subject is the formidable Lord Justice Scrutton - a Judge described as "the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century" and a member of one of the more influential Courts of Appeal (with Atkin and Bankes LJJ). Scrutton was a difficult man, and perhaps for this reason was not elevated to the House of Lords. In this well-written biography, however, he is portrayed in a balanced and sympathetic way.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781107032583

xxii, 349 pages : portrait ; 24 cm