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unusual facts about High Court judge



Sarah Asplin

The Honourable Mrs Justice Asplin (born 16 September 1959) is a British judge who serves as a Justice of the High Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

Thomas Hetherington

A perceived miscarriage of justice after the murder of male prostitute Maxwell Confait, and a subsequent critical report by the retired High Court judge Sir Henry Fisher in 1977, led to a Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure chaired by Sir Cyril Philips, which reported in 1981.

Tom Blofeld

The son of Sir John Blofeld, a former High Court judge, and the nephew of Henry Blofeld, the cricket commentator, Tom Blofeld is married to Leslie Felperin, a film critic for Variety magazine, and the father of two children, Rufus John Felperin Blofeld (born June 30, 2007) and Eve Valentine Felperin Blofeld (born September 9, 2008).


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Augustine Geve

The three men were convicted for the crime and several other murders in March 2005 by High Court judge (and future Governor General) Frank Kabui, who sentenced them to life in gaol.

Craig Sweeney

Ex-High Court judge Sir Oliver Popplewell said: "I think it's unwise for the home secretary to poke his nose into legal affairs." Lord Ramsbotham urged Blair "to shut up" and accused him of enacting policy changes which caused more problems than they solved.

Edmund Alexander Lanquaye Bannerman

His later legal career encompassed being a senior lecturer at the Ghana School of Law (1960-64), a visiting lecturer at the University of Ghana (1961-63), a High Court judge in Tanzania (1964-67), legal adviser to Ghana Police and Ghana Airways (1967-70).

Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

From 29–31 May 2009, Woolf served with Sir William Blair, a High Court Judge, as the Co-Convener of the inaugural Qatar Law Forum of Global Leaders in Law, held in Doha, Qatar.

Henry Fisher

Henry Arthur Pears Fisher (1918–2005), British High Court judge and President of Wolfson College, Oxford

Inshan Ishmael

Even though his lawyers succeeded in getting a High Court Judge, Justice Peter Jamadar, to order the San Juan/Laventille Regional Corporation to allow the anti-crime rally on the 27th, Commissioner of Police Trevor Paul did not respond to Ishmael’s application for permission to use a public address system.

Jeremy Cooke

He became head of chambers in May 2000, replacing Stephen Tomlinson, who left and became a high court judge.

Linda Dobbs

Loyda Johnson was a Creole from Sierra Leone and Arthur Dobbs (b. 1914) was an English lawyer originally from Essex who went on to serve as a High Court judge in Sierra Leone.

Londonderry by-election, 1929

The by-election was held due to the appointment as high court judge of the incumbent UUP MP, Malcolm Macnaghten.

Martyn Day

On the 25 November 2009, Bob Ainsworth, then the British Minister of State for the Armed Forces, announced that a retired High Court judge Sir Thayne Forbes would chair the public inquiry into allegations that 20 Iraqis, taken prisoner during the battle, were murdered and that others were tortured.

National Asset Management Agency

In February 2013 High Court judge Colm Mac Eochaidh ruled in favour of the Commissioner for Environmental Information.

Patrick Russell

Sir Thomas Patrick Russell (1926–2002), known as Patrick Russell, English High Court judge and a member of the Privy Council

Rigby Swift

Swift died on 19 October 1937 while still a High Court judge, and was buried in Rotherfield.

Salafia Jihadia

Judge Baltasar Garzón, a high court judge in Spain, released four of the suspects, but had the other four imprisoned in Madrid pending trial.

Sue Woodford-Hollick, Lady Hollick

Sue Woodford-Hollick was educated at the University of Sussex and is the daughter of Ulric Cross, a former High Court judge in Trinidad, Trinidadian High Commissioner to London (1990–93) and much-decorated RAF squadron leader in World War II.

Thomas Blaikie

Incidentally, Agnes Dingwall Bateson (née Blaikie) was the mother of Sir Alexander Dingwall Bateson, high court judge, and Harold Dingwall Bateson, England Rugby player.

Tom Mboya

They had five children, including daughters Maureen Odero, a high court judge in Mombasa, and Susan Mboya, a Coca-Cola executive who continues the education airlift program initiated by Tom Mboya.

Tugendhat

Michael Tugendhat, British High Court judge, brother of Christopher Tugendhat