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Lecture

Judge Dennis Davis
A Man for All Seasons

Thursday 28.10.2021

Summary

“A Man For All Seasons” was originally a play that went on to become a six-time Oscar-winning film. Judge Dennis Davis explores the journey from stage to screen and the interesting details of each.

Judge Dennis Davis

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Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.

As I indicated he did. And I think the answer to that is that what Bolt was trying to do, Jonathan, was in a sense, although using this snapshot of history as a relatively accurate depiction, what he was trying to do is pose a whole series of moral and if I may say legal problems, and therefore the historical concept of Moore was perhaps less important than the purpose of which he had in mind, and so superbly articulated by Scofield.