Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan

Michael Patrick Nolan, Baron Nolan, of Brasted in the County of Kent KT PC QC (* September 10, 1928, † 22 January 2007) was a British lawyer who most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 Life peer and member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Lawyer and judge

After attending Ampleforth College made ​​Nolan, whose father James Nolan was Solicitor, 1947-1949 his military service in the Royal Artillery and also then completed a degree in law at Wadham College, University of Oxford, where the later Northern Ireland Minister Patrick Mayhew Stephen and Thummim, the 1987-1995 Head of the British prison service ( Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons ), was among his fellow students. After graduating in 1953, he received his legal approval to the Chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court ) of the Middle Temple, and then began working as a barrister. For his services he was a lawyer in 1968 's Counsel (Queen 's Counsel ) appointed and also received in 1974 a lawyer approval for Northern Ireland. In addition, he was also appointed Queen's Counsel 1974 1975 for Northern Ireland and the so-called " Bencher " of the Bar of the Middle Temple.

After over twenty years of activity Nolan joined the judicial service in 1975 and was initially Recorder ( magistrates ) at the Crown Court of Kent. Subsequently, he was appointed in 1982 to the judge in the chamber for civil matters ( Queen's Bench Division ) to the Commissioner for England and Wales High Court of Justice. This judge held Nolan, who was defeated in 1982 at the same time Knight Bachelor and hence the additional name "Sir" led until 1991. Besides, he served between 1985 and 1988 as chairman of the judges in charge of West England Senate ( Western Circuit) of the High Court

After completion of the judges work at High Court of Justice in 1991 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 1994. In addition, he was also appointed Privy Councillor in 1991.

Upper House Member and Lord Justice

Last Nolan was appointed by Letters Patent of 11 January 1994 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life Peer with the title ' Baron Nolan, of Brasted in the County of Kent, a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his resignation on 30 September 1998 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).

During this time he was between 1994 and 1997 and the first chairman of the newly established Committee on Standards in Public Life ( Committee on Standards in Public Life), which was used by the so-called " cash-for -questions affair" by the government of Prime Minister John Major and dealt with corruption allegations against MPs and legal standards for elected officials ( Nolan Principles) developed. His successor as chairman of the committee in 1997, Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen.

Then Baron Nolan acted as the successor of Patrick Nairne from 1997 until his replacement by Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury in 2002 as Chancellor of the University of Essex. At the same time he was active from 2000 to 2001 as chairman of the Commission for Child Protection Reform of the Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom.

Nolan was married in 1953 Margaret Noyes, the younger daughter of the poet Alfred Noyes.