Atkin Society

All law students at Magdalen, undergraduates and graduates alike, are subscribing members of the Atkin Society, which takes its name from Lord Atkin, the Magdalen lawyer who is best remembered for his seminal judgment in Donoghue v Stevenson, the case of the snail in the ginger beer bottle ([1932] AC 562). The Atkin Society is run by an annually elected student committee and therefore its activities tend to vary. The students organise and cook a Christmas dinner which tends to become more elaborate every year. They also arrange other social and career events, strengthening the legal fraternity at Magdalen College.