Richard Collins, Baron Collins

Richard Henn Collins, Baron Collins of Kensington in the County of London PC ( born January 31, 1842 in Dublin, † January 3, 1911 in Hove, East Sussex ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer was also a member of the House of Lords. Previously, he served 1901-1907 as Master of the Rolls one of the highest magistracies of the English legal system.

Life

Lawyer and High Court Justice

Collins, son of a lawyer graduated, after the visit of The Royal School in Dungannon studying law at Trinity College (Dublin ) and at Downing College, University of Cambridge. After his legal approval to the Chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court ) from the Middle Temple in 1867, he took on a job as a barrister in 1880 and worked as an investigator in corruption cases. In 1883 he was appointed Queen's Counsel (Queen 's Counsel ), and in 1885 also known as " Bencher " of the Bar of the Middle Temple.

1891 Collins judges in the Chamber of Civil Cases (Queen 's Bench Division ) to the Commissioner for England and Wales High Court of Justice, and held this office of judge until 1897. At the same time he was defeated in 1891 Knight Bachelor and led since then the additional name "Sir". During this period he belonged in 1892 to an arbitration commission, which dealt with the resulting from a territorial claim boundary dispute between Great Britain as a colonial power of British Guiana and Venezuela. In addition, he was from 1892 to 1897 Chairman of the Railway Commission.

Master of the Rolls

After completing his work at Judge High Court of Justice in 1897 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 1901. In addition, he was appointed to the Privy Councillor in 1897 also. He was also in 1901 some time Chairman of the War Fund Committee.

In 1901, he was the successor of Archibald Levin Smith Master of the Rolls and making him Chairman of the Chamber of Civil Cases in the Court of Appeal. In this high judicial office he remained until 1907, and was at the same time 1901-1907 and Chairman of the Commission on Historical Manuscripts ( Historical Manuscripts Commission), from which today's National Archives.

In addition, he was chairman of a 1904 Commission, which investigated the case Adolph Beck. The businessman was the victim of a known miscarriage of justice. Beck spent on false and inadequate identification methods 1896-1904 several years for crimes committed by the con artist Wilhelm Meyer, alias John Smith crimes in prison.

Lord Justice and the House of Lords member

Most recently, Collins, who also was in 1905 treasurer of the Bar of the Middle Temple, by Letters Patent of March 6, 1907 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Bridge of Harwich, of Harwich in the County of Essex as a member the House of Lords appointed to the peerage and worked until 1910 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).

During his tenure as Lord Justice, he worked among others at the judgment with the procedure Sumpter v Hedges (1898 ). In this process, from the law of contract ( Contract Law ) related to the essential performance of contracts and compensation for unjust enrichment.

Lord Collins was the father of five children. His second son, Sir Stephen Ogle Henn Collins was also a judge at the High Court of Justice.