Brief article based on an edited transcript of a seminar presentation given by Dr R. Gwynedd Parry of Swansea University at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in October 2010 to mark the publication of his biography of Professor Sir David Hughes Parry QC (founding Director of the IALS). The article is published in Amicus Curiae – Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by SALS at the IALS (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London).