Sir Malcolm Thomas Pill (born 11 March 1938) is a former

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, who was the longest-serving member of the

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upon reaching mandatory retirement at age 75. Pill was born on 11 March 1938 into a

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family, the son of a

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. He was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School, Cardiff and

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. He was

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(

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) in 1962. From 1963 to 1964, he was Third Secretary at the

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and spent a period in

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at the

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. For nine years he was chairman of the United Kingdom Committee of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. He was a Recorder from 1976 to 1987. He became a

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in 1978, and was appointed a High Court judge on 15 January 1988, receiving the customary

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, and assigned to the

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. From 1989 to 1993, he was Presiding Judge for the Wales and Chester Circuit. He was appointed a

on 1 February 1995, and was given the customary Privy Council appointment. Among his most notable judgments is the second appeal in the Stephen Downing case. He retired from the Court of Appeal on 11 March 2013.

Judgments

Important decisions of Lord Justice Pill include: * '' Smith v Lloyds TSB Group plc'' 001QB 541 * ''

Irving v Penguin Books Ltd ''David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt'' is a case in English law against American historian Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher Penguin Books, filed in the High Court of Justice by the British author David Irving in 1996, ...

'' * '' HJ (Iran) and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department'' 010UKSC 31 (at Court of Appeal) * ''

Delaware v City of Westminster ''Delaware v. City of Westminster'' ( 001UKHL 55) is an English court ruling on Nuisance in English law, nuisance, addressing the question of Legal liability, liability for repairing damage caused by tree roots. The court upheld a ruling of th ...

'' 001UKHL 55 (at Court of Appeal) * '' FHR European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC''

014 014 may refer to: * Argus As 014 The Argus As 014 (designated 109-014 by the Ministry of Aviation (Germany), RLM) was a pulsejet engine used on the German V-1 flying bomb of World War II, and the first model of pulsejet engine placed in mass pr ...

UKSC 45 (at Court of Appeal) * '' Haugesund Kommune v DEPFA ACS Bank'' 010EWCA Civ 579

Publications

* * (childhood memoirs) * (memoirs)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pill, Malcolm 1938 births Living people Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 20th-century Welsh judges Knights Bachelor Lord justices of appeal Queen's Bench Division judges 20th-century King's Counsel 21st-century King's Counsel People educated at Whitchurch Grammar School, Cardiff Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 21st-century Welsh judges