Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner

Desmond James Conrad Ackner, Baron Ackner, of Sutton in the County of West Sussex PC QC (* September 18, 1920, † 21 March 2006) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer and member of the House of Lords was.

Life

After attending Highgate School Ackner graduated in law at Clare College, University of Cambridge and performed in the meantime during the Second World War military service in the Royal Artillery. He received after graduation, 1945, the lawyer is admitted to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) of the Middle Temple, whereupon he took up work as a barrister. For his services as a lawyer on him in 1961 the title of a Kronanwalts ( " Queen's Counsel " ) has been awarded and it further in 1965 after twenty years of legal work also so-called " Bencher " of the Bar of the Middle Temple. In addition to his legal practice, he was from 1962 to 1971 a part-time municipal judge in Swindon.

Statewide attention to the bar reached Ackner the mid-1960s, when he represented the survivors of the mining disaster in Aberfan on October 21, 1966, while serious allegations against Alfred Robens, Baron Robens, Chairman of the National Coal Board ( National Coal Board ), rose.

He then joined full time in the Judicial Service and was 1967-1971 and judge of the Court of Appeal ( Court of Appeal ) for Jersey and Guernsey. In the late 1960s he also dealt with the injured due to the use of thalidomide and allocated to such high compensation. In addition, he served 1968-1970 as Chairman of the General Council of the Bar as well as Vice- President of the Senate of the four Inns of Court Bar Associations of

Ackner was then in 1971 a judge in the Chamber of Civil Cases (Queen 's Bench Division ) on the England and Wales competent High Court of Justice, and held this office of judge until 1980. At the same time he was defeated in 1971 Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir". During this time he was 1973-1980 and judge of the Commercial Court ( Commercial Court ), a division of the Chamber for civil matters, and at the same time from 1976 to 1979 Presiding Judge of the competent West England Division.

Upon completion of this activity took place in 1980 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 1986. In addition, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor in 1980 also.

Last Ackner was appointed in 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Ackner, of Sutton in the County of West Sussex as a member of the House of Lords to the peerage on 6 January 1986 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act and worked until 1992 as Lord Justice ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). As Lord Justice in 1987, he dealt among other things with the advance publication of excerpts from the novel Spycatcher by Peter Wright. This press law restrictions were by Peter Preston, the editor of the daily newspaper The Guardian, as "a new and ominous weapon." He was most recently between 1993 and 1996 President of the Society of Sussex Downsmen.