Sir George Malcolm Hilbery (14 July 1883 – 18 September 1965) was a British barrister and High Court judge. The son of a

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solicitor, Hilbery was educated at

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, and was

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in 1907. In 1927 he was elected a

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of his Inn and appointed

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. He

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in 1928. In 1935, he was appointed to the High Court and assigned to the

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, receiving the customary

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the same year. In 1959 he was made a

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. He retired in 1962. One of the most famous cases he presided over was the

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. On 30 October 1952, he gave Christopher Craig's older brother, Niven, 12 years imprisonment for carrying out an armed robbery. Three days later, Christopher Craig shot dead PC Sidney Miles on a Croydon rooftop. Hilbery wrote ''Duty and Art in Advocacy'', which was first published in 1946. For many years a copy of this little book was presented to every Barrister on their being called to the Bar by The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

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