Arthur Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden (23 January 1955 – 17 April 2019Lawyer to the stars dies in tragic body surfing accident in Gibraltar
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'', 18 April 2019) was a British

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. He specialised in

court-martial A court-martial or court martial (plural ''courts-martial'' or ''courts martial'', as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of memb ...

law, and using the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 to contain and curtail protest involving, amongst other matters, anti-corporate groups. He acted in numerous cases involving

animal rights Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all sentient animals have moral worth that is independent of their utility for humans, and that their most basic interests—such as avoiding suffering—should be afforded the sa ...

groups,

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s, and anti-militarist groups. Timothy ("Tim") Lawson-Cruttenden was born in

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( North London). His father, most commonly known as

Roy Cruttenden Arthur Roy Cruttenden (18 February 1925 – 3 June 2019) was a British long jumper. Athletics career Born in Brighton, he competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He represented England in the long jump at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwe ...

(1925 - 2019), was an

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. His mother, born Phyllis May Watkins, was a PE teacher. Tim Lawson-Cruttenden attended

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and

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, Cambridge. He was a

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Lieutenant in the Blues and Royals and an honorary legal advisor to the Regiment. He was the secretary of the Old Harrovian Law Society and was one of the founding members of the Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates and its chairman from 2007. He died by drowning while "body surfing" off the coast of

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in 2019. An obituary appeared in ''The Times''.

Books

* Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden and Neil Addison (1997), ''Blackstone's Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997'',

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, * Neil Addison and Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden (1997), ''Harassment Law & Practice''

References

2019 deaths English solicitors People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 1955 births 20th-century English lawyers {{UK-law-bio-stub