C. Northcote Parkinson Martin's, Guernsey, where he purchased Les Caches Hall and later restored Annesville Manor. His writings from this period included a series of historical novels featuring a fictional naval officer from Guernsey, Richard Delancey, during the Napoleonic era. In 1969 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject 'The Status of the Engineer'. Parkinson's law, which provides insight into a primary barrier to efficient time management, states that, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". This articulates a situation and an unexplained
Mechanisms of the English common law strictly speaking that principle is too wide to be said to be "ratio decidendi". Nevertheless, if that broad principle is approved and applied by later courts, then the principle will eventually be treated as "ratio". A particular example is the broad "neighbour principle", enunciated by Lord Atkin in "Donoghue v Stevenson" 1932, which has become the basis of the modern law of negligence. When judges may face conflicting precedents, they may select the preferable case. Dissenting judgments are not "ratio", and so must be "obiter". Sometimes, with the passage of time, more attention is given to the dissenting judgment that