If a wholly non-Cambridge person can chip in - at the time of the 70th
birthday of Desert Island Discs - and record (for what it is worth) that
'Doing good by mistake - restitution and remedies' (1973) 32 Cambridge Law
Journal 23 is my favourite casenote of all time (and anyone who has not
looked at it for a while will enjoy a pleasant 10 minutes in its company).

Gerard McMeel

On Fri, January 6, 2012 11:52 am, Dr R Munday wrote:
> Dear Nick,
>
> Possibly others have already pointed this out, but I can think of at least
> two further publications that could be added to your bibliography of Tony
> Weir's works:
>
> First, there is an essay, 'Il contratto inademptiuto: realtà e tradizione
> del diritto contrattuale europeo', a paper delivered in September 1997 and
> published by G.Giappichelli editore of Turin in a collection of conference
> papers, pp.71-106, in which Tony began by taking Atiyah to task.
>
> Secondly, there is a case note, 'Subrogation and Indemnity: A Note on
> Morris v. Ford Motor Co. [1973] Q.B. 792', which Tony had privately
> printed
> (I seem to recall that a relative was involved -- was it his brother???)
> in
> 1973. My dimming recollection -- and we did chuckle over the incident
> several times over the years -- is that he had initially submitted the
> note
> to the Cambridge Law Journal. Tony felt that the case was important. The
> then editors rejected the note, I think, on the ground that they found it
> far too long: they insisted on its being cut. Whatever the
> circumstances,
> I do remember that Tony was simply incandescent. He therefore arranged
> for
> the note to be privately printed and, to emphasise his sense of grievance,
> he had a cover printed which exactly apes the pale-blue as well as the
> fonts of the Cambridge Law Journal. In fact, the entire 'offprint', both
> content and cover, are virtually being passed off as CLJ material. With
> the passing of years Tony's account of the incident did mellow, but at the
> time -- and he did distribute copies to all then members of our Faculty,
> and doubtless to innumerable others, just to make the point -- he
> considered himself a man wronged. The incident may also explain the
> five-year hiatus in his CLJ case-note production between 1973 and 1978.
>
> Sorry to be such a pedant, but I imagine that the episode, that in a way
> was so typical of our friend, is now rather forgotten.
>
> Ever,
> Roderick
>
> Dr Roderick Munday,
> Peterhouse,
> Cambridge CB2 1RD
> Tel.: 01223-338200
>
>
>
> --On 19 December 2011 18:06 +0000 Nick McBride <njm33@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Colleagues will be greatly saddened to hear that Tony Weir died in
>> hospital last Tuesday. The acerbic brilliance of his writings on tort
>> law
>> and private law generally (both common law and civilian) has rarely been
>> matched, and never surpassed. He was simply incapable of writing
>> anything
>> uninteresting. Below my signature is an incomplete list of his
>> publications.
>> Nick McBride
>>
>> Books
>> An Introduction to Tort Law, 2nd ed (Clarendon Law Series, 2006)
>> A Casebook on Tort, 10th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004)
>> Economic Torts (Clarendon Press, 1997)
>>
>> Articles
>> 'Two great legislators' (2006) 21 Tulane European and Civil Law Forum
>> 35
>> 'All or nothing?' (2003-4) 78 Tulane Law Review 511
>> 'Human rights and damages' (2001) 40 Washburn Law Journal 413
>> 'English tort law seen from abroad' in Rider (ed), Law at the Centre:
>> The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at Fifty (Kluwer, 1999)
>> 'The staggering march of negligence' in Cane and Stapleton (eds), The
>> Law of Obligations: Essays in Honour of John Fleming (OUP, 1998)
>> 'Recovery in tort for economic loss' (1997) 94 British Insurance Law
>> Association Journal 14
>> 'Taking for granted - the ramifications of nemo dat' (1996) 49 Current
>> Legal Problems 325
>> 'Die Sprachen des europaischen Rechts. Eine skeptische Betrachtung'
>> [1995] Zeitschrift fur Europaisches Privatrecht 368
>> 'Errare humanum est' in Birks (ed), The Frontiers of Liability, Volume
>> 2
>> (OUP, 1994)
>> 'Contracts in Rome and England' (1992) 66 Tulane Law Review 1615
>> 'Friendships in the law' (1992) 6-7 Tulane Civil Law Forum 61
>> 'Governmental liability' [1989] Public Law 40
>> 'A strike against the law?' (1986) 46 Maryland Law Review 133
>> 'Shields and swords' (1983) 7 Trent Law Journal 1
>> (with Pierre Catala) 'Delict and torts: a study in parallel' (1962-3)
>> 37
>> Tulane Law Review 573 (Part I), (1963-4) 38 Tulane Law Review 221 (Part
>> II), (1963-4) 38 Tulane Law Review 663 (Part III), (1964-5) 39 Tulane
>> Law
>> Review 701 (Part IV)
>>
>> Casenotes
>> 'Making it more likely vs making it happen' (2002) 61 Cambridge Law
>> Journal 519
>> 'The unwanted child' (2002) 6 Edinburgh Law Review 244
>> 'The maddening effect of consecutive torts' (2001) 60 Cambridge Law
>> Journal 237
>> 'The unwanted child' (2000) 59 Cambridge Law Journal 238
>> 'Down hill - all the way?' (1999) 58 Cambridge Law Journal 4
>> 'Suicide in custody' (1998) 57 Cambridge Law Journal 241
>> 'Clamping' (1996) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 423
>> 'Swag for the injured burglar' (1996) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 182
>> 'A damnosa hereditas?' (1995) 111 Law Quarterly Review 357
>> 'Rylands v Fletcher reconsidered' (1994) 53 Cambridge Law Journal 216
>> 'The case of the careless referee' (1993) 52 Cambridge Law Journal 376
>> 'The polluter must pay - regardless' (1993) 52 Cambridge Law Journal 17
>> 'Physician - kill thyself!' (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 397
>> 'Fixing the foundations' (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 24
>> 'Statutory auditor not liable to purchaser of shares' (1990) 49
>> Cambridge Law Journal 212
>> 'Rebuilding defective building law' (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal 12
>> 'P pays X for the physical damage due to D's negligence' [1989] Lloyd's
>> Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 1
>> 'Liability for knowingly facilitating mass breaches of copyright'
>> (1988)
>> 47 Cambridge Law Journal 348
>> 'The answer to Anns?' (1985) 44 Cambridge Law Journal 26
>> 'Wrongful life - nipped in the bud' (1982) 41 Cambridge Law Journal 225
>> 'The wages of the dead' (1981) 40 Cambridge Law Journal 20
>> 'The Pearson Commission Report' (1978) 37 Cambridge Law Journal 222
>> 'Doing good by mistake - restitution and remedies' (1973) 32 Cambridge
>> Law Journal 23
>> 'Local authority vs critical ratepayer - a suit in defamation' (1972)
>> 30
>> Cambridge Law Journal 238
>> 'Discrimination in private law' (1966) 24 Cambridge Law Journal 165
>> 'Tort, contract and bailment' (1965) 23 Cambridge Law Journal 186
>> 'Chaos or cosmos? Rookes, Stratford and the economic torts' (1964) 22
>> Cambridge Law Journal 225
>> 'Liability for syntax' (1963) 21 Cambridge Law Journal 216
>>
>> Book reviews
>> Hoeflich, Roman and Civil Law and the Development of Anglo-American
>> Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century (1999) 3 Edinburgh Law Review
>> 398
>> Cane, Anatomy of Tort Law; and Atiyah, The Damages Lottery (1998) 57
>> Cambridge Law Journal 204
>> Cane, Tort Law and Economic Interests (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal
>> 551
>> Frier, A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict (1990) 49 Cambridge Law
>> Journal 157
>> Fleming, The Law of Torts, 7th ed (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal 152
>> Birks (ed), New Perspectives in the Roman Law of Property: Essays for
>> Barry Nicholas (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal 510
>> Collins, The Law of Contract (1986) 45 Cambridge Law Journal 503
>> Hart and Honore, Causation in the Law, 2nd ed (1985) 44 Cambridge Law
>> Journal 477
>> Honore, The Quest for Security; and Von Hippel, Der Schutz des
>> Schwaecheren (1984) 43 Cambridge Law Journal 377
>> Cheifetz, Apportionment of Fault in Tort Law (1982) 14 Ottawa Law
>> Review
>> 234
>> Stair, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland (1982) 41 Cambridge Law
>> Journal 183
>> Deutch, Unfair Contracts (1978) 37 Cambridge Law Journal 344
>> Waddams, Products Liability (1976) 35 Cambridge Law Journal 178
>> Carter-Ruck, Libel and Slander; and Rubinstein (ed), Wicked, Wicked
>> Libels (1973) 32 Cambridge Law Journal 150
>> Coote, Exception Clauses (1965) 23 Cambridge Law Journal 301
>>
>> Translations
>> Bucher, England and the Continent: Distinguishing the Pecularities of
>> English Common Law of Contract (Dike Books, 2009)
>> Halperin, The French Civil Code (UCL, 2006)
>> Zweigert and Koetz, An Introduction to Comparative Law, 3rd ed (OUP,
>> 1998)
>> Koetz and Flessner, European Contract Law, Vol I (Clarendon Press,
>> 1998)
>> Wieacker and Zimmermann, A History of Private Law in Europe, with
>> Particular Reference to Germany (Clarendon Press, 1996)
>> Grossfeld, The Strengths and Weaknesses of Comparative Law (OUP, 1990)
>> Serick, Lipstein, and Riesenfeld, Securities in Movables in German Law:
>> An Outline (Kluwer, 1990)
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