Neville Jonas Laski (18 December 1890 – 24 March 1969) was an English judge and leader of
Anglo-Jewry
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History
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Family
Laski came from a distinguished family. His father was Nathan Laski (1863-1941), a
Lithuanian Jewish
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Manchester cotton merchant and a leader of British Jewry; his mother, Sarah Frankenstein, had married Nathan Laski in 1889. His younger brother was
Harold Laski
Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of ...
. He married Phina Emily, eldest daughter of
Moses Gaster
Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the ''Hakham'' of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. Moses Gaster was an active Zionist in Romani ...
; he had four children, including
Marghanita Laski
Marghanita Laski (24 October 1915 – 6 February 1988) was an English journalist, radio panellist and novelist. She also wrote literary biography, plays and short stories, and contributed about 250,000 additions to the ''Oxford English Diction ...
.
Education
*
Manchester Grammar School
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*
Clifton College
''The spirit nourishes within''
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*
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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, MA
Beit
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Prize, 1912.
Career
Laski was a barrister and was appointed a Kings Counsel (KC) in 1930 and a Bencher of the
Inner Temple
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in 1938. He was a
Judge of Appeal
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The position was created by the Judicature (Amendment) Act 1918 which also amalgamated the offices of ...
of the
Isle of Man
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, 1953–1956 and
Recorder
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of
Burnley
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, 1935–1956. He was a Judge of the
Crown Court
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and
Recorder of Liverpool
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(1956–1963).
During the
First World War
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he served with the 6th
Lancashire Fusiliers
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in
Gallipoli
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,
Sinai
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and
France
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, retiring with the rank of
Captain
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.
He was a member of the
General Council of the Bar
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, 1950–1956, Chairman of its Professional Conduct Committee, 1952–1956 and its Honorary Treasurer, 1955–1956.
Other positions held
* Chairman, Manchester Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital
* President,
London Committee of Deputies of British Jews, 1933–1939
Board of Deputies of British Jews
London Metropolitan Archives
* Presiding elder of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, 1961–1967
* Vice-president, Anglo-Jewish Association
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See also
* ''Who Was Who''
*''Sagar v Ridehalgh & Sons Ltd
''Sagar v Ridehalgh & Sons Ltd'' 9311 Ch 310 is a UK labour law case concerning the contract of employment. It concerns the implication of terms, regarding deductions from wages, through the custom of an industry.
Facts
Mr Sagar was a cotton w ...
'' 931
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Events
By place
Europe
* Spring – Hugh of Provence, king of Italy, cedes Lower Burgundy to Rudolph II, in re ...
1 Ch 310, a UK labour law
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case where Laski KC represented the employer.
Publications
* "The Laws and Charities of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation of London" (1663-1677)
* "Jewish Rights and Jewish Wrongs"
References
1890 births
1969 deaths
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
British Army personnel of World War I
People educated at Clifton College
English King's Counsel
20th-century English judges
English Jews
Lancashire Fusiliers officers
People educated at Manchester Grammar School
20th-century King's Counsel
Presidents of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
Members of the Inner Temple
Lawyers from Manchester
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