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Recorder Of Liverpool
The recorder of Liverpool or, since 1971, the honorary recorder of Liverpool is an ancient legal office in the Liverpool, City of Liverpool, England. The Recorder (judge), recorder is appointed by the Council, by virtue osection 54 of the Courts Act 1971 The recorder of Liverpool is customarily also a Circuit judge (England and Wales), senior circuit judge of the Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool, Liverpool Crown Court in the North West Circuit, although the City may choose to appoint any duly qualified Judge to the role. They are addressed in court as "My Lord" or "My Lady", if also a senior circuit judge. List of recorders of Liverpool * Alexander Rughleye (1541–) * Henry Halsall (1572–) * Edward Halsall (c.1579) * Sir Thomas Hesketh (died in year 1398) * Leonard Chorley (1602–1608) (died 1608) * Edward Halsall * Thomas Molyneux (1620–) * Hugh Rigby (1634–) * William Langton (MP), William Langton ( mid-1600s - died 1659) * John Lightbourne * John Entw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population of (in ), Liverpool is the administrative, cultural and economic centre of the Liverpool City Region, a combined authority, combined authority area with a population of over 1.5 million. Established as a borough in Lancashire in 1207, Liverpool became significant in the late 17th century when the Port of Liverpool was heavily involved in the Atlantic slave trade. The port also imported cotton for the Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution, Lancashire textile mills, and became a major departure point for English and Irish emigrants to North America. Liverpool rose to global economic importance at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century and was home to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recorder (judge)
A recorder is a judicial officer in England and Wales and some other common law jurisdictions. England and Wales In the courts of England and Wales, the term ''recorder'' currently has two distinct meanings. The senior circuit judge of a borough or city is often awarded the title of "Honorary Recorder". However, "Recorder" is also used to denote a person who sits as a part-time circuit judge. Historic office In England and Wales, originally a recorder was a certain magistrate or judge having criminal and civil jurisdiction within the corporation of a city or borough. Such incorporated bodies were given the right by the Crown to appoint a recorder. He was a person with legal knowledge appointed by the mayor and aldermen of the corporation to 'record' the proceedings of their courts and the customs of the borough or city. Such recordings were regarded as the highest evidence of fact. Typically, the appointment would be given to a senior and distinguished practitioner at the Bar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circuit Judge (England And Wales)
Circuit judges are judges in England and Wales who sit in the Crown Court, the Family Court, the County Court and some specialized sub-divisions of the High Court of Justice, such as the Technology and Construction Court. There are currently over 600 circuit judges throughout England and Wales. The office of circuit judge was created by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced the former offices of chairman of quarter sessions and borough recorder. All County Court Judges were also redesignated as circuit judges. Circuit judges are styled His or Her Honour Judge X and are referred to as His or Her Honour. They are sometimes referred to as "purple judges" on account of their purple colour dress robes. Recorders effectively function as part-time circuit judges and are also addressed as "Your Honour". Circuit judges rank below High Court judges but above district judges. They may be appointed to sit as deputy High Court judges, and some of the more senior circuit judges are eligibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, Liverpool
The Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts, in Derby Square, Liverpool, are operated by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service. The building is used by the Crown Court, the Magistrates' Court, Liverpool District Probate Registry and the Liverpool Youth Court. History Until the mid-1980s, all Crown Court cases were heard in St George's Hall. However, as the number of court cases in Liverpool grew, it became necessary to commission a more modern courthouse for both criminal and civil matters: the site selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department had been occupied by Liverpool Castle between the 13th and 18th century. The new building was commissioned by the now-defunct Property Services Agency, who were seeking a design which expressed authority and power. Construction of the new building started in 1973. It was designed by Farmer and Dark in the brutalist style, built with vertically ribbed pre-cast concrete panels in dark, reddish tones at a cost of £43.4 million, and was offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Langton (MP)
William Langton (died 1659) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1645 and 1648. Langton was the son of Roger Langton of Amounderness, Lancashire, He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge and was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1630. He was called to the Bar on 23 June 1637 and became Recorder of Liverpool and Town clerk of Preston. In 1645, Langton was elected Member of Parliament for Preston in the Long Parliament. Although not excluded under Pride's Purge Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England. Despite defeat in the ... he is not recorded as sitting after 1648. Langton lived at Broughton Tower. He died in 1659 and was buried at Preston on 25 October 1659. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Langton, William Year of birth missing 1659 deaths Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Salusbury Brereton
Owen Salusbury Brereton, (1715 – 8 September 1798), born Owen Brereton, was an English antiquary. Life Brereton was born in London in 1715, the son of Thomas Brereton, M.P. for Liverpool, by his first wife, Miss Trelawney. His father had inherited Shotwick Park, Cheshire, and other property through his second marriage with Catherine, daughter of Mr. Salusbury Lloyd, the M.P. for Flint Boroughs, and had changed his surname to Salusbury. Owen Brereton succeeded in 1756 to Shotwick and other estates in the counties of Chester, Denbigh, and Flint Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start ... on his father's death and also took Salusbury as (an additional) surname. He was admitted a scholar of Westminster School in 1729, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1734. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hargrave
Francis Hargrave (c.1741–1821) was an English lawyer and antiquary. He was the most prominent of the five advocates who appeared on behalf of James Somersett in the case which determined, in 1772, the legal status of slaves in England. Although the case was Hargrave's first, his efforts on the occasion secured his reputation. Life Hargrave was born in London, the son of Christopher Hargrave of Chancery Lane. He entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn in 1760. He came to prominence because of his performance in 1772, in Somersett's case, and shortly afterwards was made King's Counsel. Thereafter, he specialised in legal history and commentary and did not take further part in the abolitionist campaign. In 1797 he was made Recorder of Liverpool, and for many years was treasurer of Lincoln's Inn and a leading parliamentary lawyer. He continued the celebrated compendium of State Trials begun by Thomas Salmon and Sollom Emlyn, which was later expanded by Thomas Bayly Howell. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Hopwood
Charles Henry Hopwood KC (20 July 1829 – 14 October 1904) was a British politician and judge. He was educated at King's College School and at King's College London. He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 2 November 1850 and was Called to the Bar on 6 June 1853. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Stockport from 1874 to 1885, and as Liberal MP for Middleton from 1892 to 1895. Hopwood became QC in 1874. He was appointed Recorder of Liverpool in 1886. In politics he supported Irish Home Rule. Hopwood was an anti-vaccinationist.Bristow, Edward J. (1987). ''Individualism Versus Socialism in Britain, 1880-1914''. Garland Publishing. p. 69 He is buried with other family members in Kensal Green Cemetery Kensal Green Cemetery is a cemetery in the Kensal Green area of North Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London, England. Inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in P .... The grave lies o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale
William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale, (1 October 1848 – 17 August 1923) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1914 and 1918, as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division between 1918 and 1919 and as Master of the Rolls between 1919 and 1923. Biography Pickford was born in Manchester, son of the Manchester merchant Thomas Edward Pickford and his wife, Georgina, daughter of Jeremiah Todd-Naylor, and grandson of Thomas Pickford II of the Pickfords carriers. He was educated at Liverpool College and went to Exeter College, Oxford in 1867. He entered the Inner Temple in 1871, reading under Thomas Henry Baylis, and was called to the bar in 1874. Going the Northern Circuit, he had chambers in Liverpool. As a junior Pickford appeared in the trial of Florence Maybrick. He took silk in 1893. He was made Recorder of Oldham in 1901, and then of Liverpool in 1904. He also represented the British government in 1905, in the inquiry af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Hemmerde
Edward George Hemmerde, KC (13 November 1871 – 24 May 1948) was an English rower, barrister, politician, playwright and Georgist. Education, the Law and family Hemmerde was born at Peckham, south London, the son of James Godfrey Hemmerde and his wife Frances Hope. His father was a bank manager with the Imperial Ottoman Bank. Hemmerde was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford. At Oxford he was a successful single sculler, and won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1900, beating the previous winner American B H Howell. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1897 and established his law practice. In 1908, he took silk and was appointed Recorder of Liverpool in 1909, although his relations with the city authorities there were seldom good. He married Lucy Elinor Colley at Chelsea, London, in 1903 but they were divorced in 1922. They had a son (who was killed in 1926) and a daughter. Liberal candidate Hemmerde first tried to e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gorman (politician)
Sir William Gorman (15 October 1891 – 21 December 1964) was an English barrister, judge and Liberal Party politician. Family and education Gorman was born in Wigan in Lancashire, the son of William Gorman, a shopkeeper in Wigan, and Catherine Jump. He was the grandson of Henry Gorman, also a Wigan shopkeeper, who was born in Tipperary, Ireland in 1825. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School. He never married.''Who was Who'', OUP 2007 Career Gorman went in for the law and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1921. He took silk in 1932. He practised on the Northern Circuit and was elected a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 1938, acting as its treasurer in 1959. He was made a judge in 1934, serving as Recorder of Wigan from 1934 to 1948 and was Recorder of Liverpool from 1948 to 1950. In 1950 he was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. As Mr Justice Gorman, he was the judge who presided over the infamous A6 Murder trial, the longest murde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Laski
Neville Jonas Laski (18 December 1890 – 24 March 1969) was an English judge and leader of Anglo-Jewry. Family Laski came from a distinguished family. His father was Nathan Laski (1863-1941), a Lithuanian Jewish Manchester cotton merchant and a leader of British Jewry; his mother, Sarah Frankenstein, had married Nathan Laski in 1889. His younger brother was Harold Laski. He married Phina Emily, eldest daughter of Moses Gaster; he had four children, including Marghanita Laski. Education * Manchester Grammar School * Clifton College * Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MA Beit Prize, 1912. Career Laski was a barrister and was appointed a King's Counsel (KC) in 1930 and a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1938. He was a Judge of Appeal of the Isle of Man, 1953–1956 and Recorder of Burnley, 1935–1956. He was a Judge of the Crown Court and Recorder of Liverpool (1956–1963). During the First World War he served with the 6th Lancashire Fusiliers in Gallipoli, Sinai and F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
