Education
Educated at Holywell Grammar School
and St. John’s College, Cambridge. McMahon Scholarship. MA. LLM.
President, Cambridge Union Society, 1950.
Service
RAF VR 1944 — 1948
Called to the Bar
5 February 1952, Middle Temple.
Harmsworth
Scholarship.
Bencher 1977.
Treasurer 1995.
QC 1969
Recorder 1972 — 1977 (before
that, Deputy Chairman from 1964, 1966 of 2 County Quarter Sessions)
High Court Judge
Family Division 1978 — 1988,
Queen’s Bench Division 1988 — 1996.
A presiding judge of Wales
and Chester Circuit, 1980 — 1984.
Member Employment Appeal Tribunal,
1979 — 1987.
Chairman
Interdepartmental Committee of
Inquiry on Rabies, 1971 — 1972; Local Government Boundary Commission for
Wales, 1974 — 1978; Tribunal of Inquiry into Child Abuse in
Children’s Homes in North Wales, 1996 — 2000.
Member of Panel of Arbitrators of
Singapore International Arbitration Centre since 1996.
Honorary LLD,
University of Wales, 1986.
