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Speech by Lord Dyson: Magna Carta and Compensation Culture



Speech by Rt Hon Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls at The High Sheriff of Oxfordshire's Annual Law Lecture on the 13 October 2015.

My first idea was to give a lecture about the so-called Compensation Culture: what is it and should we be concerned about it? That is a topical subject which the organisers of the lecture thought would be of interest. But as we all know, 2015 is the 800thanniversary of Magna Carta and it was pointed out to me that the Bodleian Library has no fewer than 4 of the 17 surviving pre-1300 engrossments of Magna Carta? So I was asked whether I could introduce a Magna Carta theme into my lecture? I did not want to give up on Compensation Culture. Hence the somewhat Delphic title of the lecture "Magna Carta and the Compensation Culture" . The title was the easy bit"�

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