Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon

Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon, of Kilbrandon in the County of Argyll PC KC ( * August 15, 1906, † September 10, 1989 ) was a British lawyer, who as recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 Life peer and member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Shaw graduated after attending the elite Charterhouse School to study law at Balliol College, University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. After graduating in 1932, he received his legal approval from the Bar Association of Scotland ( Faculty of Advocates ), and then began working as a lawyer. After he had served his military service in World War II, he continued after the war continued his work as a lawyer and was (King 's Counsel ) appointed for his services as a lawyer in 1949 's Counsel.

In 1954, Shaw Judge at Sheriff 's Court of Ayr and Bute, and then in 1957 at the Sheriff 's Court of Perth and Angus, and at the same time in 1957 head of the Scottish legal profession ( Dean of the Faculty of Advocates ).

Two years later, Shaw was founded in 1959 with the title of Lord Kilbrandon Judge at the High Court in Scotland, the Court of Session, and was thus at the same time Senator of the College of Justice, which consists of the three supreme courts of Scotland. He also acted in 1965 as the first chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, one set up by the Law Commissions Act 1965 to advise the Commission and reform of Scots law.

Last Shaw was appointed by Letters Patent of October 4, 1971 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Kilbrandon, of Kilbrandon in the County of Argyll, a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his admission to retire on 31 December 1976 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). In addition, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor in 1971 also.

In addition, he was in 1972 as a successor of Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther Chairman of the Royal Constitutional Commission ( Royal Commission on the Constitution ), which was named after him Kilbrandon commission and on October 31, 1973 submitted a report to the British constitutional law.