Andrew Hardie, Baron Hardie

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Andrew Rutherford Hardie, Baron Hardie , PC , QC (born January 8, 1946 in Alloa ) is a British judge on the Supreme Court of Scotland and former Lord Advocate , the senior law officer in the United Kingdom. He led the law enforcement team in preparation for the original Lockerbie trial but resigned as Lord Advocate shortly before the trial was completed in 2000. He is a member of the Labor Party .

life and career

Early life

Hardie was born in Alloa . He attended St Modan's High School in Stirling and the University of Edinburgh , where he received a Scottish Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws .

He was admitted to the bar in 1971 and by the Faculty of Advocates in 1973 . From 1979 to 1983 he worked as an Advocate Depute and was appointed Crown Attorney in 1985. From 1983 to 1985 he was Standing Junior Counsel of the City of Edinburgh and from 1987 to 1997 Senior Counsel . He was from 1989 Treasurer ( Treasurer ) of the Faculty of Advocates until he was elected Dean. An office he held from 1994 to 1997. From 1991 to 1994 he was a part-time Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Medical Appeals Tribunal.

From 1994 to 1996 Hardie was the Convener of Children in Scotland . He was Honorary President of the Muir Society from 1994 to 2000. In 1997, he became an Honorary Bencher with the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association .

Lord Advocate and Membership in the House of Lords

After the Labor Party won the general election in 1997 , Hardie was appointed Lord Advocate (until 2000) and life peer as Baron Hardie, of Blackford in the City of Edinburgh . He also became a member of the Privy Council . He made his inaugural address at the House of Lords on June 10, 1997.

On October 22, 2011, he took the oath, previously he had spoken on January 20, 2000. He last took part in a vote on July 9, 2009.

In addition to his duties as a prosecutor, he played an active role in the House of Lords. There he was government spokesman during the passage of the Scotland Act 1998 . Under his terms, the Lord Advocate became a member of the new Scottish Executive, and his duties to the British Government were transferred to the newly created office of Advocate General for Scotland . The first Scottish Parliament was elected in 1999, at which time Hardie became a member of the Scottish Executive.

On the website of the House of Lords, he lists childcare and human rights of juvenile prisoners as his political interests. He mentions the People's Republic of China , India , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as states of interest .

At the beginning he was regularly present, from 2001 onwards occasionally on meeting days. As a senior member of the judiciary, he has been excluded from participation since 2009.

Lockerbie process

On Wednesday December 21, 1988 the Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish city of Lockerbie , killing two hundred and seventy people. Two Libyan men were charged for this in 1991, but their trial did not begin until May 2000. The trial itself was held at a special session of the High Court of Justiciary, when Scottish Court in the Netherlands, at Camp Zeist, a former US Air Force- Base in Utrecht in the Netherlands .

Hardie, as Lord Advocate, took care of the preparations for the trial. It was intended that he should lead the law enforcement team, but he resigned as Lord Advocate in March 2000, two months before the trial was due to begin, and faced allegations of abandoning the victims' families. He was succeeded by the Solicitor General for Scotland Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby .

The Bench

Hardie was appointed Judge to the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary in March 2000 .

In 2008 an appraisal of his legal performance found that he was described as "Scotland's worst judge". Statistics showed that eighty-four convictions handed down by him were overturned on appeal, all sentences were reduced, while two convictions were successfully conceded. However, both judgments concerned a single case in which Hardie was found to have misled the court on a legal issue.

Hardie was appointed a member of the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2010, serving as an acting judge on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom under Section 38 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 .

family

He is married and has three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Rt Hon Lord Hardie QC The Lord Advocate Entry on the Scottish Government website dated May 17, 1999
  2. ↑ Lord Hardie and Mr Colin Boyd appointed Law Officers Announcement on the Scottish Government website dated May 17, 1999
  3. ^ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website ; Retrieved November 30, 2012
  4. ↑ Top Law Officer quit's article on BBC News, February 16, 2000
  5. ↑ Lockerbie prosecution team chief leaves Lord Advocate's office published by plane-truth.com on February 16, 2000
  6. ↑ Hardie defends decision to go article on BBC News on February 17, 2000
  7. ↑ Lord Hardie appointed a senator of the college of justice Announcement on the Scottish Government website dated February 17, 2000
  8. ↑ Lord Hardie is top of judges' list for sentence challenges Article of Scotsman ; Retrieved July 6, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Hardie, Andrew, Baron Hardie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardie, Andrew Rutherford, Baron Hardie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British judge of the Supreme Court of Scotland and former Lord Advocate
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Alloa