Has Equity Had Its Day? Hong Kong University Common Law Lecture 2010
Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
25/10/2010
"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’..."
