Developing common law: how far is too far?
Law Oration 2012 by Justice of Supreme Court UK Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe on the development of common law. Delivered in the grand surrounds of the Banco Court in the Supreme Court of Victoria. The Law Oration is a free annual event, presented by Victoria Law Foundation and Melbourne Law School.
Lord Walker became one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2009. He sits as a non-permanent justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, and has sat in the Bahamas and Mauritius on occasional local sittings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Over the past five decades, Lord Walker has lectured or conducted advocacy training in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and New Zealand, as well as in the United Kingdom.
In 2013, a modified version of this paper was published in 37(1) of the Melbourne University Law Review.
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