Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote

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Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote, 2009

Richard Rashleigh Folliott Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote PC , QC (born October 2, 1934 in the Union of South Africa ) is a British judge and former Lord Justice .

Youth and education

Scott was born on October 2, 1934. He went to Michaelhouse School , Natal in South Africa . He studied at the University of Cape Town , where he graduated in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts and then studied at Trinity College (Cambridge) with a Tripos degree in law in 1957. He then went a year as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago , where he met his future wife Rima Elisa Ripoll, who is from Panama .

Professional career

Scott was admitted to the Inner Temple Bar in London in 1959 and became a Bencher in 1981 . He worked as a lawyer from 1960 to 1983 and was appointed Crown Attorney in 1975 . In 1980 he was appointed Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster , an office he held until 1983. He was vice chairman from 1981 to 192 and chairman of the bar from 1982 to 1983.

Scott was appointed a judge in the High Court of Justice in 1983, where he was responsible for business law. He was knighted at the same time . From 1987 to 1991 he was Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster , where he was responsible for overseeing the commercial justice system in northern England. In 1991 he was appointed to the Court of Appeal , and at the same time became Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council. From 1994 to 2000 he was Vice-Chancellor of the High Court and from 1995 to 2000 Master of the Rolls . In 2003, he was made a temporary member of the Hong Kong Supreme Court of Appeals; during this time he became known by his Chinese name ( Chinese  施廣智 ).

On July 17, 2000 he was appointed Lord Judge and as Baron Scott of Foscote , of Foscote in the County of Buckinghamshire, raised to life peer . He resigned from office on September 30, 2009.

Scott investigation

In 1992, while serving as a judge on the Court of Appeal, he chaired a commission of inquiry to investigate the Arms-to-Iraq scandal, in which the British government allegedly helped British companies to deliver weapons to Iraq. The investigation report was published in 1996, but large parts of it were classified as secret. Scott said it was " regrettable and disappointing " that the government had not adjusted the laws regulating the arms trade.

Personal

Lord Scott has been married to Rima Elisa Ripoll since 1959. They have two sons and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Senior Judicial Appointments - Number10.gov.uk . 10 Downing Street . April 18, 2000. Archived from the original on July 23, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Scott of Foscote . In: Who's Who (subscription req'd) . Oxford University Press . December 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  3. ^ The Rt Hon the Lord Scott of Foscote . In: Debrett's People of Today . Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  4. ^ Senior judicial appointments: Court of Final Appeal and High Court . May 2, 2003. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  5. ^ Justice of the UK Supreme Court - Number10.gov.uk . 10 Downing Street . April 20, 2009. Archived from the original on July 23, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  6. ↑ Who are the Law Lords? . BBC News. October 4, 2004. Retrieved July 22, 2009.

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SURNAME Scott, Richard, Baron Scott of Foscote
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott, Richard Rashleigh Folliott, Baron Scott of Foscote
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British judge and former Lord Justice of the Union of South Africa
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH South African Union