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Robert Douglas Carswell, Baron Carswell, PC (born 28 June 1934) is a retired Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.


Early life

The son of Alan and Nance Carswell was educated at the
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and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received a
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and
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in classics and law in 1956. Two years later he graduated from the
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with a Juris Doctor.


Legal career

Carswell was Counsel to the
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in the years 1969 and 1971, and Senior Crown Counsel in
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from 1979 to 1984. In 1984, he became Judge of the
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Northern Ireland, a post he held until 1992. He was Lord Justice of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland from 1992 to 1997 and further
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from 1997 to 2004. Lord Carswell was made a
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in 1971. Carswell became a
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in 1993. He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary as Baron Carswell, of Killeen in the County of Down on 12 January 2004, having been knighted in 1988. He sat in the
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as a crossbencher until his retirement from the membership of the House on 29 October 2019. During 2009–2010, Lord Carswell chaired an inquiry into the roles of Jersey's Crown Officers (the Bailiff, Deputy Bailiff, Attorney General and Solicitor General), presenting
report
recommending reforms to the States of Jersey on 6 December 2010.


Family

Lord Carswell married Romayne Winifred Ferris in 1961; they have two daughters. Lady Carswell was appointed
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in 2000.


See also

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