ABSTRACT
The purpose of this essay is both to justify the continued use of equity by English law and also to give some indication of its particular relevance to the world at the beginning of the 21st century. The following are the principles on which I would rest a defence of equity: the remainder of this essay will pursue each of them in greater detail. At para 37.2 there is an attempt to explain how we might understand the notion of conscience as used in equity.
