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Precedent in the Southern Hemisphere*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

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I am most honoured to have been asked to deliver this lecture in the series of the Lionel Cohen Lectures in this University. During the years I practised as an advocate I had the privilege and advantage of appearing in London on more than one occasion before a board of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council of which Lord Cohen was a member. May I respectfully say that in the argument of cases before him I came to appreciate his knowledge of the law and the perceptiveness of his mind in the resolution of complex legal problems. I always appreciated his unfailing courtesy and patience with counsel even when perforce counsel in the course of duty had to put what his Lordship thought was a bad and even an untenable argument. Also, I came to know him personally and joined the wide circle of his friends. I am very delighted to be now participating in a public acknowledgement of Lord Cohen as a jurist and as a man.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1970

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* Lionel Cohen Lecture delivered at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on June 10, 1969.