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“... It is not a semantic or linguistic exercise.’ In his preface to the biography under review, Edmund Heward says that Lord Denning was ‘bold and innovative, wished to restate the law in accordance with established principles and hated the restrictions imposed by precedent’. That is as fine a statement of contradictions as you are likely to meet ...”

“... Life of Mansfield contains at least one palpable fabrication. In the 20th century two scholars, Edmund Heward and C.H.S. Fifoot, produced good short biographies focused on Mansfield as a lawmaker; and James Oldham (the author of the excellent entry on Mansfield in the current DNB), with new access to a large cache of Mansfield’s trial notes, produced ...”