Richard May (judge)

Sir Richard George May ( * November 12, 1938 London, United Kingdom; † 1 July 2004 in Oxfordshire, UK ) was a British lawyer.

Richard May studied after military service in the Durham Light Infantry law at Selwyn College, Cambridge. As a barrister, he was admitted in 1965. In addition to his legal advocacy work, he was finally prosecutor before was appointed a judge of the Crown Court in 1987.

Richard May made ​​a name for himself as a politician. In 1970 he ran as a candidate of the Labour Party for South Dorset, and in 1979 as a Labour candidate against Margaret Thatcher in the constituency of Finchley. In the years 1970-1979 he was a councilor in the city council of Westminster.

1997 Sir Richard May was appointed to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY) of the United Nations in The Hague. Here he chaired, among others, in the trial of the former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević for war crimes. Richard May campaigned for the creation of the International Criminal Court ( ICC) of the United Nations. This was also established in The Hague in 2002.

Because of his health weakening Richard May resigned in February 2004 from his office. In June 2004 he was knighted and honored with the title of "Sir". Finally, he died a few weeks later at his home in Oxfordshire with a brain tumor.

  • Richter (International Criminal Court )
  • Labour Member
  • Briton
  • Born in 1938
  • Died in 2004
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