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The Jill Poole Memorial Lecture by the Lord Chief Justice: Keeping commercial law up to date

16 May 2017

It is both a pleasure and an honour to give the first in a series of lectures in memory of Jill Poole.I knew her, what seems now a very long time ago, as a young law lecturer at Cardiff University when I went back to Wales to be a Presiding Judge in 1998.  I followed her career through UWE, and then finally here, with great interest.  She was very dynamic.  She did a great deal for Cardiff and a huge amount for UWE; it has been a pleasure to know what she has done here.  So it is, I think, fitting, that I should have this opportunity and privilege of saying something about a subject in which she was so interested, which was contract law, but seen through a commercial lens.  I thought I would take as a topic not some interesting aspect of commercial law (such as bills of lading as I might lose you very, very quickly), but look at a much broader canvas - keeping commercial law up to date.

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