Frederick Tucker, Baron Tucker

Frederick James Tucker, Baron Tucker, of Great Bookham in the County of Surrey PC ( * May 22, 1888, † 27 November 1975) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Life peer also was a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Tucker, whose father Frederick Nugent Tucker was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Natal, completed post-school study of law and, after graduation in 1914 his legal approval to the Chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court ) of the Inner Temple. He then began working as a barrister and served 1929-1937 as a member of the General Council of the Bar (General Council of the Bar ). For his services he was a lawyer in 1933 's Counsel (King 's Counsel ) in 1937 and appointed a so-called " Bencher " of the Bar of the Inner Temple.

Tucker, who was 1936-1937 municipal judge (Recorder) from Southampton, in 1937 Judge of the Chamber of Civil Cases ( King's Bench Division ) to the Commissioner for England and Wales High Court of Justice, and held this office of judge until 1960. At the same time he was in 1937 defeated a Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir".

Upon completion of this activity took place in 1945 judge his appeal to the judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal, which is responsible for England and Wales Court of Appeal, where he worked until 1950. In addition, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor 1945, and in 1946 a Fellow of New College, University of Oxford. In 1945 he was presiding judge at the trial of the fascist politician William Joyce.

Last Tucker was appointed by Letters Patent of September 29, 1950 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer by the title of Baron Tucker, of Great Bookham in the County of Surrey, a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his retirement on October 6, 1961 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).