Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell
Robert Douglas Carswell, Baron Carswell, PC, QC ( born June 28, 1934), is a British Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in retirement.
Life and career
Carswell was born the son of Alan and Nance Carswell. He attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution Grammar School and graduated at Pembroke College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1956 with a Master of Arts in Law and Classical archeology. Two years later he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Chicago for the Juris Doctor.
Carswell 1971 Attorney-General and 1993 Member of the Privy Council. He was in the years 1970 and 1971 consultants ( Counsel ) of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland, and Senior Crown Counsel in Northern Ireland from 1979 until 1984. 1984 he became a judge of the High Court of Justice of Northern Ireland, a post which he held until 1993.
He was from 1993 to 1997 Lord Justice of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland and 1997-2004 Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland).
Carswell is president of the Royal Belfast Academical Constitution and the Northern Ireland Scout Council and was chairman of the held in the years 2009/2010 committee of inquiry with respect to the Crown Offices of Bailiff, Deputy Bailiff, Attorney General and Solicitor General in Jersey.
Membership in the House of Lords
Carswell was on January 12, 2004 Lord of Appeal in Ordinary as Baron Carswell, of Killeen appointed in the County of Down, and remained so until 2009. In the upper house, he sits as a non-party (Cross Bencher ). Its official launch took place on 13 January 2004 with the support of Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry and Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton. On 28 January 2010 he gave his inaugural speech on constitutional reform. After he signed up several more times in 2010 to speak, he spoke there again until 2012, and volunteered several times for Crime and Courts Bill to speak.
As political interests he calls legal and constitutional questions, as well as Northern Ireland. On 20 November 2007 Carswell gave a lecture entitled The Breastplate of Judgment: Human Rights in the House of Lords of the University of Cambridge. On meeting days Carswell was rarely present as a Law Lord in his property. When he went into retirement as such, swayed his presence in the mid to low range.
Work in the public
In December 2003, he testified as a witness before the Select Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
In the case of a published by the Daily Mirror photograph showing Naomi Campbell in a rehabilitation clinic, was heard by the Law Lords. This decided in May 2004 with 3 to 2 votes in their favor, with Carswell agreed for their concerns.
In November 2005 he commented on the expiry of lawsuits against terrorists in Northern Ireland. In November 2007 he took part in a panel discussion at the Law Faculty of the University of Cambridge.
Carswell came in April 2010, partly because of his attitude and personal choice in terms of Jersey, and because of his support of Quintin Hogg McGarel criticism. In October 2010, he spoke out against further investigation of Bloody Sunday. Carswell said in November 2011 in front of the Constitution Committee, as well as Harry Woolf.
Honors
1988 Carswell Knight Bachelor was and is an honorary member of the Society of Legal Scholars.
Family
Lord Carswell married in 1961 Romayne Winifred Ferris. They have two daughters. Lady Carswell was appointed in 2000 to the Lord Lieutenant of Belfast.