Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann

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Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann

Leonard "Lennie" Hubert Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann Kt PC QC (* 8. May 1934 in Cape Town ) is a British lawyer , who most recently from 1995 to 2009 Lord Justice ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ) was and since 1995 as a Life Peer member of the House of Lords is.

Life

Hoffmann graduated after school to study law at the University of Cape Town and was then from 1958 to 1960 as a lawyer at the Supreme Court of South Africa ( Supreme Court of South Africa worked). He then served from 1961 to 1973 Fellow of Civil Law at the University College of the University of Oxford . In 1964 he was admitted to the bar at Gray's Inn , which made him a bencher in 1984 . In the following years he worked as a barrister and was appointed crown attorney in 1977 .

In 1977 Hoffmann, who was a member of the Royal Commission of Gambling between 1976 and 1978 , was appointed judge at the Jersey and Guernsey Court of Appeal , where he served until 1985. He was also a member of the Council for Legal Education between 1983 and 1992 and director of the English National Opera from 1985 to 1994 . For his services he was awarded a Knight Bachelor's degree in 1985 and from then on carried the suffix "Sir".

In 1988 Hoffmann was appointed as a judge at the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice , which is responsible for commercial , antitrust , inheritance and property law , and worked there until 1992. This was followed in 1992 by his appointment as Lord Justice of Appeal and thus to Judge at the Court of Appeal responsible for England and Wales , where he served until 1995. During this time he became Privy Councilor in 1992 and also received an honorary doctorate in civil law (Hon. DCL.) From City University London in 1992 and from the University of the West of England (UWE) in 1995 . He was also President of the British- German Lawyers Association between 1991 and 2009 and was also a Fellow of Queen's College at Oxford University in 1992 .

In 1995 he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and thereby with the title Baron Hoffmann , of Chedworth in the County of Gloucestershire, a member of the House of Lords on the basis of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 . He held the post of Lord judge from to 2009 and is next to it since 1998 to non-permanent judge at the last instance Court of Appeal of Hong Kong ( Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal ). During this time, he was awarded a second honorary doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire in 2003 and he also became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation in 2006.

He was followed on April 20, 2009 by Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

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