The author … has, with meticulous research in a wide range of archives, including Devlin's correspondence with establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic, produced a balanced picture of a complex personality.

Michael Beloff QC, The Times Literary Supplement

The wide-ranging career of Patrick Devlin, both on and outside the Bench, provides rich material for this biography by Justice John Sackar of the NSW Supreme Court. This is a work of considerable scholarship but emminently readable.

Michael Sexton SC, Australian Law Journal

A diligent recording of the life of one of the most prominent British judges of the last century.

Nick Clapham, University of Surrey, The Law Teacher