1921-22.] Obituary Notices. 385 
No one who pleaded before him could ever say that he had not been fully 
heard or understood. In his conduct of criminal trials he leaned more to 
the accused than to the prosecution, and his sentences, if they erred at all, 
erred on the side of leniency. 
For the reasons I have already indicated, Dickson cannot be ranked 
among the few who can be justly called great judges. But if he was not 
a great judge, he was at all events a great personality, and, what is still 
better, a delightful personality. As Lord Strathclyde wrote in a masterly 
appreciation that appeared in the Juridical Review: “His genuine humanity 
will continue to live for many a day in the haunts which he brightened by 
his sunny presence. ... It is by nothing that Dickson said or wrote, but 
by his own fine nature made manifest by what he did and was, that his 
memory will long remain green among us.” 
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