Philip Caplan, Lord Caplan

Philip Isaac Caplan, Lord Caplan, FRPS AFIAP (24 February 1929 – 7 November 2008) was a British lawyer and judge. He was a

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in Scotland from 1989 to 2000. Caplan was born into a Jewish family in Glasgow, the only son of businessman Hyman Caplan and his wife, Rosalena Caplan. He was educated at Eastwood High School and the

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. He was a

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between 1952 and 1956, before being

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in 1957. He became a

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in 1970. He was appointed

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of Lothian and Borders in 1979, then Sheriff Principal of North Strathclyde in 1983. In 1989, he was appointed a

, taking the title Lord Caplan. He sat both the

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