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Summary: Tom, Tom the tailor's son
Comment: Alfred Thompson Denning was a man who, while accepting that his first name was Alfred, preferred to be addressed as Tom.
Though he became one of the leading judges of his time, he came from modest roots - the town of Whitchurch in Hampshire where his Dad was a tailor. To this day, his old home town boasts a silk mill on a clear chalkstream - the river Test.
'The Discipline of Law' is part of a series of five, which he described as 'the Christmas books'. He did that because they had been written in successive years during the Christmas vacation. Another in the series is 'Landmarks in the Law'.
For me, these books were like meeting Tom Denning down the pub, off-duty, and getting him to explain to you the background to the way the law works and how you can somehow make a difference to justice within the framework of the process of the law.
There's not much about the theatrical side of the law. The series mainly addresses the issues which had moved him personally in the course of his work and the features of the legal landscape which became clearer to him as his career developed.
If he had been an angler, he would have been like George Skues. Methodical, innovative and just a little bit mischeivous.
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