| The Rt Hon The Lord Griffiths, MC |
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Qualified:
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Mediator Arbitrator |
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Specialist
Areas:
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International & Domestic Commercial and other disputes. |
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Education:
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Cambridge, St Johns College BA, 1948 MA, 1954 Honorary Fellow, 1985 |
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Judicial
History:
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Appointed to High Court of Justice 1971 Appointed Judge of National Relations Court 1973-74 Appointed to Court of Appeal 1980 Appointed Privy Councillor 1980 Appointed to House of Lords 1985 |
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General
Information:
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Legal Professional Appointments: Treasurer of Bar Council 1968-69 Member of Advisory Council on Penal Reform 1967-70 Member of Lord Chancellors Law Reform Committee 1976-85 Vice-Chairman of Parole Board 1976-77 President of the Senate of the Four Inns of Court and the Bar 1982-84 Member of the Civil Justice Review 1987-90 Visitor of the University of Wales 1990 Chairman of the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Legal Education and Conduct 1991-93 Treasurer of the Inner Temple 1992 Member of Mediation Panel - Maxwell Pensioners Trust 1993 Extra Legal Appointment: Chairman of the Security Commission 1985-92 Honorary Appointments: Honorary Member of Canadian Bar Association 1981 Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Judicial Administration 1985 Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers 1988 Honorary LLD University of Wales 1987 Honorary LLD de Montfort University 1993 Sporting Appointments: President of MCC (cricket) 1991 Captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews 1993 President of the Bar Golf Club 1990- United States Experience: Member of the Anglo-American Exchange 1977 1989 Addressed Admiralty Law Institute at Tulane University, Louisiana, on Product Liability Law 1987 [published Vol Lx II Tulane Law Review] Addressed American College of Trial Lawyers in Desert Springs, California on induction as an honorary fellow 1988 Addressed American Institute of Judicial 1985 Administration on relationship between Bar and Bench - London [Published in institute's journal] Visiting British Judge at the Appellate Conference and Bar Association Meeting San Francisco, Published paper on the British Constitution and spoke at numerous meetings 1987 Addressed American College Trial Lawyers with Dean Griswold on comparative review review of the function and recent work of the Supreme Court and the House of Lords, London 1992 |
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