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About James Atkin
James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin,, known from 1913 to 1928 as Sir Richard Atkin and also called Dick Atkin, was an Australian-British barrister who served as a judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court of Justice, a justice of the Court of Appeal, and finally as a lord of appeal in ordinary from 1928 until his death in 1944. He is especially remembered as the judge who gave the leading judgement in the 1932 case Donoghue v Stevenson, which established the modern law of negligence in the UK and indirectly in most of the common law world.
Everything about James Atkin →- Occupation
- judge, politician, barrister, jurist
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, judge, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- November 28, 1867
- Died
- June 25, 1944