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Mickey Dias
Born
Reginald Walter Michael Dias Bandaranaike

(1921-03-03)3 March 1921
Colombo, Ceylon
Died17 November 2009(2009-11-17) (aged 88)
NationalityDominion of Ceylon Ceylon United Kingdom British
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Legal scholar, researcher and teacher
Known forAuthor of leading works on jurisprudence and the law of tort

Reginald Walter Michael "Mickey" Dias Bandaranaike

QC (3 March 1921 – 17 November 2009) was a barrister, academic and author of leading works on jurisprudence and the law of tort. He was the first Law Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge
, Director of Studies and Professor of Jurisprudence.

Early life and education

Born in

puisne justice, and his mother was "Princess" Joy De Livera. The Dias family included Sir Harry Dias Bandaranaike, judge of the Supreme Court and acting chief justice, Felix Reginald Dias Bandaranaike I (grandfather), judge of the Supreme Court. His half brother was Felix Dias Bandaranaike
who later served as the minister of justice and minister of finance of Ceylon.

Dias was educated at

Ceylon Law College and in 1939, entered Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, like his father and grandfather before him. At Cambridge he took a starred first class in all three years of the Law Tripos, another in the LLB in 1943, and won the George Long Prizes for Jurisprudence and Roman Law. During this time he represented the university against Oxford at tennis in all four years winning a blue in tennis.[2]

War service

While at Cambridge, Dias served in the

Coastal Command as a tail gunner flying in bombers equipped with Leigh Lights and played tennis at Wimbledon for the RAF.[3]

Career

Whilst serving in the RAF, he passed the exams and was called to the Bar in 1944 at the

Queen's Counsel
in 2002.

Legal scholarship

His research was mainly in the fields of Roman law, jurisprudence and the law of tort. He is best known for his work Dias on Jurisprudence, his work as editor (from 1961) and, subsequently, general editor (from 1975 to 1995) of the leading practitioners' work Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.[3][5]

A particular concept favoured by Dias was Hohfeld's analysis of "jural corelatives" and "jural opposites"; namely that, for instance, rights and duties were corelatives (and not opposites).[6]

Elements Correlatives Opposites
Right Duty No Right
Privilege or Liberty No Right Duty
Power Liability Disability
Immunity Disability Liability

Family

He met Norah Hunter Crabb, then serving in the WAAF, whom he married in 1947. Norah died in an aircraft accident in 1980. They had a daughter Julia Dias who graduated from Cambridge attending Trinity Hall and was later appointed QC.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "R. W. "Mickey" Dias: A Gentleman and a Scholar Dr. Lakshman Marasinghe Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Windsor, Ontario CanadaBarrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple and Attorney-at-Law". island.lk. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Unpublished obituary compiled by Dr Neil Jones, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, March 2010". squire.law.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Address at the memorial service for Mr R.W.M. Dias, St Mary's the Great, Cambridge, 13 March 2010". squire.law.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  4. ^ "R W M 'Mickey' Dias QC (Hon) (TH 1939 Law) 1921–2009". trinhall.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  5. ^ "Mr Dias Emeritus Fellow". magd.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
  6. ^ "Dias on Jurisprudence".
  7. ^ "R W M 'Mickey' Dias QC (Hon)". Trinity Hall. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  8. ^ "Julia Dias QC". 7kbw.co.uk/barristers. Retrieved 29 February 2012.

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