 Lord Hutton The Right Honourable James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton, PC (born 29 June 1932), is a former British Law Lord. Lord Hutton File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Biography
Hutton was born in Belfast and studied at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford before returning to Belfast to become a barrister (after study at Queen's University, Belfast), working as junior counsel to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland. From 1979 to 1988, he was (as Sir Brian Hutton) a High Court judge. In 1988 he became Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, being made Baron Hutton, before moving to England in 1997 to become a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, or law lord. Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is the second-largest city in Ireland. ...
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During his career, Lord Hutton has pronounced on several cases to reach the public eye. On March 30, 1994 as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, he dismissed Private Lee Clegg's appeal against his controversial murder conviction. On March 21, 2002 Lord Hutton was one of four Law Lords to reject David Shayler's application to use a 'public interest' defence as defined in section 1 of the Official Secrets Act at his trial. March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ...
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David Shayler talking at an anti-war meeting at Sheffield University David Shayler is a former member of the British Security Service (MI5) who was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act after passing documents to the Mail on Sunday newspaper. ...
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Lord Hutton represented the Ministry of Defence at the inquest into the killing of civil rights marchers on 'Bloody Sunday'. Later, he publicly reprimanded Major Hubert O'Neil, the coroner presiding over the inquest, when the coroner accused the British army of murder, as this contradicted Lord Chief Justice Widgery's findings [1]. The Widgery Tribunal, a commission of inquiry established by the Heath government, is now widely regarded as a whitewash of the British army. This articles deals with the British ministry, see defence minister for other countries. ...
For other incidents referred to by this name, see Bloody Sunday. ...
The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor, and the presiding judge of Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal, and of the Queens Bench Division of the High Court. ...
John Passmore Widgery, Baron Widgery (July 24, 1911 - July 26, 1981) was a British Judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1971 to 1980. ...
The Widgery tribunal was an investigation into who was to blame for the death of 27 people on Bloody Sunday. ...
The Right Honourable Sir Edward (Ted) Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ...
Lord Hutton also came to public attention in 1999 during the extradition proceedings of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet had been arrested in London on torture allegations by request of a Spanish judge. Five Law Lords, the UK's highest court, decided by a 3-2 majority that Pinochet was to be extradited to Spain. Lord Hutton led a public campaign against this decision on the grounds that Lord Hoffmann, one of the five Law Lords, had links to human rights group Amnesty International. The verdict was then overturned by a panel of seven Law Lords which included Lord Hutton [2], [3]. General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ...
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In 1978 he defended Britain in the European Court of Human Rights when it was found guilty of torturing internees without trial. He is known for sentencing 10 men to 1,001 years in prison on the word of 'supergrass' informer Robert Quigley who was granted immunity in 1984.
Lord Hutton was appointed by the Blair government to chair the inquiry into the death of the British scientist Dr David Kelly at the heart of the September Dossier controversy. The inquiry commenced on August 11, 2003. Many observers were surprised when he delivered his report on 28 January 2004. Lord Hutton cleared the British Government in large part. His criticism of the BBC was regarded by many as unduly harsh and led to the comment he had given the "benefit of judgement to virtually everyone in the government and no-one in the BBC". The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ...
Lord Hutton led the inquiry that concluded that Dr. David Kelly had taken his own life. ...
Dr. David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. ...
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Peter Oborne wrote in The Spectator in January 2004: "Legal opinion in Northern Ireland, where Lord Hutton practised for most of his career, emphasises the caution of his judgments. He is said to have been habitually chary of making precedents. One leading politician from the province, himself extremely knowledgeable about the law, implies that Lord Hutton carries baggage, claiming that the Ulster-born law lord 'has never forgiven or forgotten the Good Friday agreement'. But few people seriously doubt Hutton's fairness or independence. Though [he is] a dour Presbyterian, there were spectacular acquittals of some very grisly IRA terrorist suspects when he was a judge in the Diplock era." Peter Oborne is a journalist, commentator, and author, and political editor of The Spectator newspaper. ...
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The court system established by the Diplock report in December 1972, which was concerned with the problem of dealing with terrorist violence other than by internment. ...
Having been at the receiving end of the British justice system, Northern Irish nationalists have a different view of Hutton. Sinn Féin's Danny Morrison wrote in The Guardian: "Although in the Belfast high court Hutton occasionally acquitted republicans and dismissed the appeals of soldiers, nationalists generally considered him a hanging judge and the guardian angel of soldiers and police officers. [...] I was amused at the response of sections of the media and British public [to Hutton's exonorating the Blair government]. Do they know anything about how the establishment works?" Royal motto: Quis separabit (Latin: Who will separate?) Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 4th 1,685,267 122/km² NUTS 1...
The name Sinn Féin (pronounced in English, in Irish), which means ourselves or we ourselves (not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone or we alone) has been applied to a series of political movements since 1905 in Ireland, each of which claim or claimed sole descent from the original...
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See also Lord Hutton led the inquiry that concluded that Dr. David Kelly had taken his own life. ...
Dr. David Christopher Kelly CMG (May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. ...
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External link - Profile from The Guardian
- BBC profile of Hutton
- Guardian piece: former Sinn Féin man Danny Morrison reviews Hutton's rulings
- Story from BBC News about his retirement
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