Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen

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Lionel Leonard Cohen, Baron Cohen PC KC (born March 1, 1888 in London - † May 9, 1973 ) was a British lawyer who was last as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer also a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Studies, Lord Judge and Member of the House of Lords

Cohen, the only son of the banker and stockbroker Sir Leonard Cohen, graduated from school with a law degree and was admitted to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple in 1913 . He then took up a job as a barrister and in 1929 was first crown attorney ( King's Counsel ) and in 1934 a so-called “bencher” of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association for his legal services .

In 1943 he became a judge in the Chamber for Economic Matters ( Chancery Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales and held this judicial office until 1946. At the same time, he was promoted to Knight Bachelor in 1943 and has since been named "Sir". During that time, Hugh Dalton , then President of the Board of Trade , appointed him chairman of a Company Law Amendment Commission in June 1943 . The final report presented by this commission in 1945 also bears the name Cohen Report named after him .

After completing this judicial activity, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) in 1946 at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1951. In addition, he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1946. At the same time, in 1946 he took over the office of chairman of the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors , a commission that dealt with complaints and claims for damages from scientists whose inventions were used militarily during the Second World War .

Last Cohen was a Letters Patent of 12 November 1951 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Cohen , of Walmer in the County of Kent for a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until his Death 1973 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). Lord Cohen, who was also Chairman of the College Committee of University College London in 1953 and Treasurer of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association in 1954, also served as President of the Cohen Commission named after him in 1954, which investigated the causes of crashes in De Havilland DH airliners .106 Comet examined.

Significant judgments as Lord Judge

During his tenure as Lord Judge, he participated in a number of decisions such as:

  • Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co (1951): This Tort Law trial resulted in a significant dissenting verdict from the influential Lord Justice Alfred Denning, Baron Denning , who advocated the establishment of a duty of care for negligent statements.
  • Boardman v Phipps (1966): This procedure from the Trust Law resulted in a fundamental judgment regarding the duty of loyalty and the duty to avoid conflicts of interest.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 151.
  2. ^ Report of the Committee on Company Law Amendment (Cohen Report 1945)
personal data
SURNAME Cohen, Lionel, Baron Cohen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohen, Lionel Leonard, Baron Cohen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1973