Sir James Christopher Jenkins, KCB, KC (Hon) (born 20 May 1939) is a British lawyer and retired parliamentary draftsman. Born in 1939, Jenkins attended Lewes County Grammar School and

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,"Jenkins, Sir (James) Christopher", ''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 27 January 2019. graduating with a first-class BA in

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in 1961. He worked at

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between 1962 and 1967, and was admitted a

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in February 1965. He joined the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1967, and was promoted to be a Parliamentary Counsel in 1978, the Second Parliamentary Counsel in 1991 and then First Parliamentary Counsel in 1994, serving until retirement in 1999. Jenkins was appointed a Companion of the

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in the

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, and promoted to Knight Commander in the

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.''The London Gazette'', 12 June 1999 (supplement no. 55513), p. 3. He was made an honorary

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in 1994.

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