Abstract
Lord Westbury was a dominant legal figure in his day, but scandal engulfed his political career. He was a zealous law reformer. However, it is not possible to appreciate his approach to law reform, including the fusion of law and equity, without understanding his diagnosis of the ills of the English legal system. Lord Westbury's standpoint was a peculiar amalgam of nineteenth-century philosophical trends together with a respect for equitable principles and a strong predilection for the methodology of the civil law. It was always going to be difficult to convert common lawyers to equitable standards and the civilian approach to law. Not surprisingly, Lord Westbury did not succeed.
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