“This evening, I should like to focus on the role of equity – at first sight, an unusual subject for a common law lecture. But as one of my predecessors as Master of the Rolls, in fact the last Chancery Master of the Rolls before me, Lord Evershed, put it, ‘The function of equity was . . . to fulfil the common law: not so much to correct it as to perfect it’…”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 25th October 2010 (Lecture delivered 12th October)
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