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Lord Denning

Lord Denning

Master of the Rolls from 1962 to 1982 who became the most widely known member of the English judiciary

Lord Scarman

Lord Scarman

Independent-minded Law Lord whose wise report steadied an alarmed country after the Brixton rioting of April 1981

Lord Hailsham

Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone

Lawyer and politician of great intellectual gifts who brought to modern Conservatism the flamboyance and firm convictions of a bygone age

Sir Tasker Watkins, VC

Genial war hero who rose to eminence in the judiciary as a Lord Justice of Appeal and Deputy Chief Justice of England

George Carman

Supreme advocate whose formidable courtroom skills brought him a succession of high-profile cases - very few of which he lost

Obituaries 

Lord Nolan
Lord Nolan

Independent-minded law lord

Sir Thomas Hetherington

Director of Public Prosecutions

Dame Rose Heilbron

Dame Rose Heilbron

The first woman to sit as a judge at the Old Bailey

Lord Donaldson

Lord Donaldson of Lymington

Veteran of the presidency of the National Indutrial Relations Court who became a reform-minded Master of the Rolls

Lord Rawlinson of Ewell

Hardworking Attorney-General under Edward Heath, who continued with a heavy caseload of court work while in office

Lord Wilberforce

Liberal law lord renowned for sound judgments, but who felt that his work in de-Nazifying Germany was his most important