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Lord Millett, Law Lord who over a long career tackled blatant tax avoidance, the Spycatcher affair, the fall of Maxwell, and child welfare – obituary
In a Lords judgment on a ‘wrongful birth’ he said ‘the law must take the birth of a normal, healthy baby to be a blessing, not a detriment’
Peter Millett (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary) in 1998
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Lord Millett, the former Law Lord, who has died aged 88, was earlier a brilliant Chancery barrister, regarded as one of the Bar’s finest exponents of the law of equity.
But perhaps his most important public service was as father of the so-called Ramsay doctrine on tax avoidance, which as a QC he persuaded the House of Lords to adopt in the eponymous case in 1982.