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unusual facts about Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart



Anthony Hawke

Hawke sat with Lord Chief Justice Hewart and Mr Justice Branson in the Court of Criminal Appeal on 18 and 19 May 1931 to hear an appeal against a conviction for murder in R. v. Wallace.

Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart

He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1918, Attorney General from 10 January 1919 to 6 March 1922.

In 1929 Hewart published The New Despotism, in which he claimed that the rule of law in Britain was being undermined by the legislature.

Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore

In 1929 he chaired the Committee on Ministers' Powers following Viscount Hewart's controversial book, The New Despotism, in which Hewart claimed that the rule of law in Britain was being undermined by the legislature.


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