James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin, known from 1913 to 1919 as Sir Richard Atkin and also called Dick Atkin, lived from 1867 to 1944 and was an Australian-British barrister who served as a judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court of Justice, a justice of the Court of Appeal, and finally as a lord of appeal in ordinary from 1928 until his death. He is especially remembered as the judge who gave the leading judgment in the 1932 case Donoghue v Stevenson, which established the modern law of negligence in the United Kingdom and, indirectly, in most of the common law world.
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