Hamlyn Lectures
The Hamlyn Lectures are a series of public lectures in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland given annually on a legal topic. The lectures have been given every year since 1949 in memory of Emma Hamlyn 's father William Bussell Hamlyn.
History
The Hamlyn Trust was established in 1948 by the 1939 will of Emma Warburton Hamlyn in memory of her father, William Bussell Hamlyn, a solicitor and JP in Torquay. Emma Hamlyn had travelled widely and was intrigued by the relation between each country and their laws. Her mother, Emma Gorsuch Warburton, had died in 1913 and her father died in 1919. After this she spent the last twenty years at her home in Ilsham reading and receiving visitors.
The trust was to further
among the Common People of this Country of the knowledge of the Comparative Jurisprudence and the Ethnology of the Chief European countries including our own and the circumstances of the growth of such Jurisprudence to the intent that the Common People of our Country may realise the privileges which in law and custom they enjoy in comparison with other European Peoples and realising and appreciating such privileges may recognize the responsibilities and obligations attaching to them.{{Cite ODNB|id=64540|last=Honoré|first=Tony|title=Hamlyn, Emma Warburton|authorlink=Tony Honoré}}{{Cite web|url=http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/schoolofhumanitiesandsocialsciences/law/pdfs/TheHamlynLegacy.pdf|title=The Hamlyn Legacy|last=Stebbings|first=Chantal}}Initially there was doubt as to whether the trust was valid, but the High Court approved a scheme for the administration of the trust in 1948, which followed closely the wording of the will.
The lectures became popular after Lord Denning delivered the first one and others agreed to follow his example.
List of Hamlyn Lectures
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!Year !Lecturer !Title |
| 1949
|Freedom Under the Law |
| 1950
|Richard O'Sullivan |The Inheritance of the Common Law |
| 1951
|The Rational Strength of English Law |
| 1952
|English Law and the Moral Law |
| 1953
|The Queen's Peace |
| 1954
|Executive Discretion and Judicial Control: An Aspect of the French Conseil d'Etat |
| 1955
|The Proof of Guilt: A Study of the English Criminal Trial |
| 1956
|Trial by Jury |
| 1957
|Protection from Power under English Law |
| 1958
|The Sanctity of Contracts in English Law |
| 1959
|Judge and Jurist in the Reign of Victoria |
| 1960
|The Common Law in India |
| 1961
|British Justice: The Scottish Contribution |
| 1962
|Lawyer and Litigant in England |
| 1963
|Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist |
| 1964
|Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress |
| 1965
|New Law for a New World? |
| 1966
|Other People's Law |
| 1967
|The Contribution of English Law to South African Law; and the Rule of Law in South Africa |
| 1968
|Justice in the Welfare State |
| 1969
|The British Tradition in Canadian Law |
| 1970
|The English Judge |
| 1971
|Punishment, Prison and the Public: An Assessment of Penal Reform in Twentieth Century England by an Armchair Penologist |
| 1972
|Labour and the Law |
| 1973
|Maladministration and its Remedies |
| 1974
|English Law—The New Dimension |
| 1975
|The Land and the Development; or, the Turmoil and the Torment |
| 1976
|Sir Robert Micklethwait |The National Insurance Commissioners |
| 1977
|The European Communities and the Rule of Law |
| 1978
|Liberty, Law and Justice |
| 1979
|Social History and Law Reform |
| 1980
|Constitutional Fundamentals |
| 1981
|Hubert Monroe |Intolerable Inquisition? Reflections on the Law of Tax |
| 1982
|The Quest for Security: Employees, Tenants, Wives |
| 1983
|Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone |Hamlyn Revisited: The British Legal System Today |
| 1984
|The Development of Consumer Law and Policy—Bold Spirits and Timorous Souls |
| 1985
|Law and Order |
| 1986
|Sir Jack I. H. Jacob |The Fabric of English Civil Justice |
| 1987
|Pragmatism and Theory in English Law |
| 1988
|Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law |
| 1989
|Protection of the Public—A New Challenge |
| 1990
|The United Kingdom and Human Rights |
| 1991
|Introducing a European Legal Order |
| 1992
|Speech and Respect |
| 1993
|The Administration of Justice |
| 1994
|Blackstone's Tower: The English Law School |
| 1995
|From the Tube to the Coffin: Choice and Regulation in Private Life |
| 1996
|Turning Points of the Common Law |
| 1997
|Commercial Law in the Next Millennium |
| 1998
|Freedom, Law and Justice |
| 1999
|The State of Justice |
| 2000
|Does the United Kingdom Still Have a Constitution? |
| 2001
|Human Rights, Serious Crime and Criminal Procedure |
| 2002
|Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws |Legal Conundrums in our Brave New World |
| 2003
|Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial Method |
| 2004
|Rights at Work: Global, European and British Perspectives |
| 2005
|Can Human Rights Survive? |
| 2006
|The Sovereignty of Law: The European Way |
| 2007
|The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies |
| 2008
|Judging Civil Justice |
| 2009
|Widening Horizons: The Influence of Comparative Law and International Law on Domestic Law |
| 2010
|Alan Paterson |Lawyers and the Public Good: Democracy in Action? |
| 2011
|The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property |
| 2012
|Aspects of Law Reform: An Insider's Perspective |
| 2013
|The Common Law Constitution |
| 2014
|UK, EU and Global Administrative Law: Foundations and Challenges |
| 2015
|Michael Freeman |A Magna Carta for Children? Rethinking Children's Rights |
| 2016
|Golden Threads and Pragmatic Patches: Fairness in Criminal Justice |
| 2017
|Thinking about Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement |
| 2018
|Why does Equality seem so difficult? Three problems in comparison. |
| 2019
|English Law under two Elizabeths |
| 2020
|Eleanor Sharpston QC (delivered online) |The Great Experiment: Constructing a European Union under the Rule of Law from a Group of Diverse Sovereign States{{Cite web |date=2020-10-20 |title=Faculty of Advocates to kick off online Hamlyn Lectures |url=https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/faculty-of-advocates-to-kick-off-online-hamlyn-lectures |access-date=2023-06-26 |website=Irish Legal News |language=en}} |
| 2021
|Advocacy |
| 2022
|Courts and the Body Politic |
| 2023
|Laws for a nation and laws for transnational commerce. Where is the line drawn? |
| 2024
|Frail professionalism |