Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate

Mark Oliver Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate PC , QC (born March 20, 1936 ) is an English lawyer . He was a Supreme Court Justice of the United Kingdom from October 2009 to July 2010 .

family

Saville was born to Kenneth Vivian Saville and Olivia Sarah Frances Gray. On June 30, 1961, he married Jill Gray, with whom he has two sons.

Education and professional activity

Saville received his education at the Rye Grammar School in Rye (East Sussex) before he did his military service with the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1954 to 1956 . He graduated from Brasenose College in Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Civil Law as the best in his class. In 1962, Saville was admitted to the Middle Temple , where he was appointed Crown Attorney in 1975 by Elizabeth II and has held the role of Master of the Bench since 1983 .

Activity as a judge

In 1985 Saville was appointed judge on the High Court of Justice and at the same time raised to a Knight Bachelor . In 1994 he began serving as a judge on the Court of Appeal and was appointed a member of the Privy Council that same year . In 1997 he followed Michael Mustill as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was raised to the nobility. In October 2009, Saville was finally appointed Justice to the UK Supreme Court. He held this office until July 30, 2010.

Saville Report

On January 29, 1998, Saville was appointed by then Prime Minister Tony Blair as chairman of a committee to investigate the events on " Irish Bloody Sunday ", during which 14 unarmed people were shot dead by soldiers of the Parachute Regiment on January 30, 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland , and a further 13 were injured by gunfire.

The investigation was controversial from the start. It was particularly problematic that the reporters Alex Thomson, Lena Ferguson and Toby Harden should be forced to reveal their informants. The investigation was extremely slow, took a total of more than twelve years and cost almost 250 million euros (£ 195,000,000). The results were published on June 15, 2010. Prime Minister David Cameron announced in front of the House of Commons that the paratroopers had fired the first shot and shot unarmed civilians fleeing and shot at and killed a man who was already injured. On behalf of the British government, 38 years after the actions of the British soldiers, he then apologized to the victims and their families.

Awards

• Honorary Doctorate from London Guildhall University (1997)

Publications (selection)

• Essays in honor of Sir Brian Neill: the quintessential judge . LexisNexis UK, London 2003, ISBN 0-406-97033-5

Web links

• Biography on the Supreme Court website (English, with picture)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Charles Mosley (ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Clan Chiefs, Scottish feudal Barons. 107th edition. Boydell & Brewer Inc, Stokesley 2003, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 (Vol III), p. 3530
2. ^ ^{A b c} Profile: Lord Saville of Newdigate . In: The Times , November 7, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2010. 
3. ↑ Lord Saville announces retirement ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Message on ukscblog.com 
4. ↑ Toby Harnden : 'Lord Saville should be ashamed' . In: The Guardian , February 13, 2004. Retrieved September 11, 2010. 
5. ^ David Sharrock: Bloody Sunday inquiry delays report again, four years after hearing evidence . In: The Times , November 7, 2008. Retrieved September 11, 2010. 
6. ↑ Bloody Sunday Report Published. . In: BBC News , June 15, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2010. 
7. ↑ Saville: Bloody Sunday killings unjustifiable , Raidió Teilifís Éireann . June 15, 2010. 
8. ↑ Bloody Sunday report published , BBC News. June 15, 2010.