Discussion 3:Lord Denning

Long denning served as a judge for nearly 40 years, from 1944 to 1982. He often played a decisive role in developing thelaw and was influential around the Commonwealth and common law world.Lord Denning became the one judicial figure everybody had heard of. During his 20 years as Master of the Rolls, he could choose his own cases and the judges who were to sit with him. So on most issues, he effectively had the last word. Not many cases went on to the House of Lords, Britain's highest court of law.

Lord Denning was perhaps the greatest law-making judge of the century and the most controversial. His achievement was to shape the common law according to his own highly individual vision of society.