C. Northcote Parkinson moved to the Isle of Man. After two years there, they moved to Canterbury, Kent, where he died in March 1993, at the age of 83. He was buried in Canterbury, and the law named after him is quoted as his epitaph. C. Northcote Parkinson Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller "Parkinson's Law" (1957), in which Parkinson advanced Parkinson's law, stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", an insight which
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