1 Introductory Remarks and the Law of Evidence COLIN
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LENNIE (aka Lord Hoffmann) was good enough to provide a foreword for my own Festschrift 1 and it is pleasing to be allowed the opportunity of helping to introduce this Festschrift for him. I did not come to know Lennie until some time after we had both been students here in Oxford. We were however born in the same year, and studied law in Oxford at much the same time. I propose in these remarks, fi rst, to describe the state of legal education in Oxford at that period and, second, to say something of Lennie ’ s work in Evidence, which was the subject of his one academic monograph 2 and is not otherwise represented in this book. I shall start in the year of our birth, 1934. At about that time legal education in Oxford was at an extremely low ebb. 3 The subject was widely regarded as lacking academic respectability. Corpus Christi College surrendered the Chair of Jurisprudence to University College for that reason, many Colleges had no Law Fellow and none more than one. Not that having such a Fellow represented any certain guarantee of academic quality since many such Fellows were either unqualifi ed or incompetent. Nor were these categories identical since some of the qualifi ed were incompetent and a very few of the unqualifi ed were competent. My own college, Magdalen, provides an example. The Law Fellow hoped to become Bursar and avoided teaching law to the extent of actually hiding away from students. In Christ Church the relevant Student was regarded as so incompetent by a particularly forceful undergraduate, one JHC Morris, as to provoke a demand to be transferred for tuition to Balliol, where the Fellow, Theo Tyler, was both
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تاریخ انتشار 2015