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Recorder Of Manchester
The Recorder of Manchester or, since 1971, the Honorary Recorder of Manchester is a legal office in the City of Manchester, England. The Recorder is appointed by the Crown. The Recorder of Manchester is also a Senior Circuit Judge of the Manchester Crown Court in the North West Circuit. They are addressed in court as "My Lord" or "My Lady". List of Recorders of Manchester *1839 (April–May) John Frederick Foster *1839–1865 Robert Baynes Armstrong *1865–1893 Henry Wyndham West QC *1893–1914 Sir Joseph Francis Leese KC *1914–1925 Arthur Jacob Ashton KC *1925–1935 Sir Walter Greaves-Lord KC *1935–1956 Sir Noel Barré Goldie QC *1956–1960 Sir Basil Nield QC *1960–1967 (John) Robertson Dunn Crichton QC *1967–1971 William Gerard Morris Honorary Recorders of Manchester *1971–1977 H H Judge Sir William Gerard Morris *1977–1982 H H Judge Sir Rudolph Lyons QC *1982–1990 H H Judge Arthur Miller Prestt QC *1990–2003 H H Judge Sir Rhys Everson Davies QC *200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort ('' castra'') of ''Mamucium'' or ''Mancunium'', established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchest ... [...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'' 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, and it was, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crown
The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states). Legally ill-defined, the term has different meanings depending on context. It is used to designate the monarch in either a personal capacity, as Head of the Commonwealth, or as the king or queen of their realms (whereas the monarchy of the United Kingdom and the monarchy of Canada, for example, are distinct although they are in personal union). It can also refer to the rule of law; however, in common parlance 'The Crown' refers to the functions of government and the civil service. Thus, in the United Kingdom (one of the Commonwealth realms), the government of the United Kingdom can be distinguished from the Crown and the state, in precise usage, although the distinction is not always relevant in broad or casual usage. A corporation sole, the Crown is the legal embodiment of execut ... [...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 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. 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 eligible to sit in the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal. Until 1 April 2005 ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Crown Court
Manchester Crown Court (Crown Square) is a Crown Court venue which deals with criminal cases at Crown Square in Manchester, England. History Until the 1940s, criminal court cases were heard at the Manchester Assize Courts. However, the assize courts were badly damaged in the Manchester Blitz in 1940. After the war, the Lord Chancellor's Department decided to commission a new building to replace the assize courts. The site the Department selected by the Lord Chancellor's Department, in Spinningfields, had been occupied by workshops and factories which had also been badly damaged during the war. The new building was designed by the city architect, Leonard Cecil Howitt, in the Modernist style Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form ..., built in Portland stone and was comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Wyndham West
Henry Wyndham West (7 November 1823 – 25 November 1893) was an English barrister and Liberal politician. Life West was the son of Martin John West and his wife Lady Maria Walpole, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Orford. His father was Recorder of Lynn, and Commissioner of Bankrupts for the Leeds District. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1848 and served on the Northern Circuit, becoming Recorder of Scarborough in 1858 and then Recorder of Manchester in 1865 (until 1893). He was appointed Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1861 and Queen's Counsel in 1868. West stood unsuccessfully as Member of Parliament for Ipswich in 1865, but was elected for the seat in 1868. He lost the seat in 1874, but was re-elected in 1883. He was unseated in 1886 after the election was declared void on account of corrupt practices by the party's agents. He didn't stand in the subsequent by-election where the Liberals lost both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Francis Leese
Sir Joseph Francis Leese, 1st Baronet, (28 February 1845 – 29 July 1914) was a British judge, Liberal politician and first-class cricketer. Background The second of eight children, Joseph was born in February 1845 to Joseph Leese (1815–1906), of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, a cotton spinner who had founded the firm of Messrs. Kershaw, Sidebotham & Co, and his wife Frances Susan Scurr (1819-1890). He was educated at Regent's Park College and gained a Bachelor of Arts from London University in 1863.http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/bq/09-3_139.pdf He briefly attended the Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge in 1864. In 1867, Leese married Mary Constance Hargreaves (1848-1928). They had six sons and two daughters, including first-class cricketer and barrister William Leese. Leese's younger sister married the Town Clerk of Southport, John Davies Williams. Williams was the uncle of Welsh priest John Rhys Davies. Legal career Leese qualified as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Greaves-Lord
Sir Walter Greaves Greaves-Lord (born Walter Greaves Lord; 21 September 1878 – 18 June 1942) was a British Member of Parliament and judge. Born in Ince, Lord was educated at Wigan Grammar School, Southport College and University College, Liverpool. He became a barrister with Gray's Inn, a King's counsel in 1919, a bencher in 1920, and treasurer of the inn in 1933. Lord changed his surname to "Greaves-Lord" in 1910. That year, he stood for the Conservative Party in Ince, but was not elected. He remained involved with the party, and was elected for Norwood at the 1922 United Kingdom general election, serving until February 1935, when he was appointed as a High Court Judge. He also served as chancellor of the Primrose League The Primrose League was an organisation for spreading Conservative principles in Great Britain. It was founded in 1883. At a late point in its existence, its declared aims (published in the ''Primrose League Gazette'', vol. 83, no. 2, March/April ... in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Goldie
Sir Noel Barré Goldie KC (26 December 1882 – 4 June 1964) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, qualifying Bachelor of Law in 1905. Judicial career He worked in chambers until the outbreak of the First World War, when he fought in Belgium and France as a Staff Captain in the Royal Artillery. He resumed his career after the war and took silk in 1928. He was made a Bencher in 1935 and a Reader in 1958. The following year he was appointed Recorder of Burnley, a position he held until he was appointed Recorder of Manchester in 1935, a position he filled until 1956. Parliamentary career At the 1929 general election, Goldie stood as the Conservative candidate for the borough of Warrington in Lancashire, defending the seat vacated by Alec Cunningham-Reid, who was standing instead in Southampton. However, in a three-way contest, Goldie was defeated by Charles Dukes, the borough's former Labour Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Nield
Sir Basil Edward Nield (7 May 1903 – 4 December 1996) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician. After the death in 1940 of Sir Charles Cayzer, the Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Chester, Nield was elected in a by-election to take his seat in the House of Commons. He held the seat through four subsequent general elections before his appointment as Recorder of Manchester led to the by-election in 1956. He was Recorder of Manchester from 1956 to 1960. As a QC he was appointed as a judge to the newly formed Manchester Crown Court, and to the High Court Bench in 1960. According to Graeme Williams, he had the distinction of serving in every Assize town in England & Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ..., and published an account of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robertson Crichton
Sir John Robertson Dunn Crichton (2 November 1912 – 12 July 1985) was a British barrister and High Court judge. Biography The son of Alexander Cansh Crichton and Beatrice Crichton, of Wallasey, Cheshire, Crichton was educated at Sedbergh School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1936. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery ( Territorial Army). Returning to the Bar after the war, he was made a King's Counsel in 1951. Crichton was Recorder of Blackpool from 1952 to 1960, Judge of Appeal of the Isle of Man from 1956 to 1960, and Recorder of Manchester and Judge of the Crown Court at Manchester from 1960 to 1967, when he was appointed a Justice of the High Court. Receiving the customary knighthood, he was assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, retiring in 1977. He married Margaret Vanderlip Watrous, daughter of Colonel Livingston Watrous, of Washington, DC, and Nantucket, Massachusetts Massachusetts (Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Maddison
Sir David George Maddison (22 January 1947 – 29 June 2019) was a British judge of the High Court of Justice, part of the Courts of England and Wales. Maddison studied at Durham University ( Grey College). He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1970 and elected as a Bencher in 2005. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1986, a Recorder in 1990, and a Circuit Judge in 1992. He served as a Member of the Parole Board from 1996 to 2002. In 2003, he was appointed a Senior Circuit Judge in 2003, Honorary Recorder of Manchester from 2003 to 2008, and Resident Judge for Manchester Crown Court. Maddison served in those roles until his appointment as a Justice of the High Court on 29 January 2008. He was assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division and received the customary knighthood A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a milit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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