Sir James Nursaw, KCB, KC (born 18 October 1932) is a retired British lawyer and public servant. Born in 1932, Nursaw attended

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1954. He was

called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

in 1955, and after a year as a senior research officer at Cambridge's Department of Criminal Science, he joined the Legal Advisory at the Home Office in 1959. After serving as Legal Adviser to the Law Officers' Department (1980–83) and then the Home Office and Northern Ireland Office (1983–88), he was appointed HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, serving between 1988 and retirement in 1992."Nursaw, Sir James"
''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 3 January 2018.''The Cambridge University List of Members'' (1991), p. 999. Nursaw was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1983, and he was promoted to Knight Commander in 1992. He took silk in 1988.

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