Peter Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton

Peter Raymond Oliver, Baron Oliver of Aylmerton (born March 7, 1921 in Cambridge ; † October 17, 2007 ) 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

Oliver, whose father David Thomas Oliver held a professorship in law at the University of Cambridge and was a Fellow of the Trinity Hall there, also completed a law degree at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge after attending The Leys School and graduated in 1941 as the best of the year. During the Second World War he did his military service between 1941 and 1945 in the 12th  Battalion of the Royal Tank Regiment and was mentioned in the war report for his services in the course of his service in Italy ( Mentioned in Despatches ).

After the end of the war, Oliver continued his legal training and, after being admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Lincoln's Inn in 1948, he began working as a barrister , specializing in commercial law. For his legal services he was appointed Crown Attorney ( Queen's Counsel ) in 1965 and in 1973 so-called "Bencher" of the Lincoln's Inn Bar Association.

In 1974 he gave up his legal practice after he was appointed judge in the Chamber of Economic Matters ( Chancery Division ) at the High Court of Justice responsible for England and Wales . This judge's office was held by Oliver, who was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1974 and thus had the suffix "Sir", until 1980. During this time, between 1976 and 1980, he was also a member of the newly founded Restrictives Practices Court , which deals in particular with questions about strengthening the economic competition , and also from 1979 to 1981 of the Revision Committee of the Chancery Division, in which he contributed to numerous changes in the chamber's ruling practice.

After completing his judicial activity at the High Court of Justice, he was appointed judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal , the court of appeal responsible for England and Wales, where he worked until 1986. In addition, he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1980.

Most recently, Oliver was appointed a member of the House of Lords to the nobility by a letters patent dated January 31, 1986 based on the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Oliver of Aylmerton , of Aylmerton in the County of Norfolk, and served until on his resignation on December 31, 1991 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ).

Web links and sources

• Peter Oliver at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages
• Obituary: Lord Oliver Of Aylmerton. 'Spycatcher' appeal judge . In: The Independent of October 31, 2007