Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell

Robert Douglas Carswell, Baron Carswell, PC, (born 28 June 1934), is a senior British judge.

The son of Alan and Nance Carswell was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in classics and law in 1956. Two years later he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with a Doctor of Jurisprudence.

Carswell was Counsel to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland in the years 1970 and 1971, and Senior Crown Counsel in Northern Ireland from 1979 to 1984. In 1984, he became Judge of the High Court of Justice Northern Ireland, a post he held until 1993. He was Lord Justice of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Judicature in Northern Ireland from 1993 to 1997 and further Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2004.

Lord Carswell was made a Queen's Counsel in 1971 and became a Privy Counsellor in 1993. He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary [cite web | url= http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page4981.asp| title= Announcement at number10.gov.uk| accessdate= 2006-11-06] as Baron Carswell, of Killeen in the County of Down on 12 January 2004, [cite web | url= http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/minutes/040113/ldminute.htm| title= Announcement of his introduction at the House of Lords| author= House of Lords| date= 2004-01-13| work= minutes of proceedings| accessdate= 2006-11-06] having been knighted in 1988. Under the Judicial Retirement and Pensions Act, Lord Carswell is due to retire by 28 June 2009.

On 20^th November, 2007, Lord Carswell gave a lecture entitled "The Breastplate of Judgment: Human Rights in the House of Lords" at the University of Cambridge. [cite web | url= http://www.camlawsoc.com/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8&year=2007&month=11&day=20&Itemid=154&catids=47|title=Cambridge University Law Society]

Lord Carswell has been married to Romayne Winifred Ferris since 1961; they have two daughters. Lady Carswell was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Belfast in 2000.

References

*cite web | url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26869| title= DodOnline| accessdate= 2006-11-06

ee also

* List of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Lords
* List of Northern Ireland members of the Privy Council

External links

*cite web | url= http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmconst/48/3120903.htm| title= UK Parliament Publications| accessdate= 2006-11-06
*cite web | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3310335.stm| title= BBC Northern Ireland| accessdate= 2006-11-06
*cite web | url= http://www.dca.gov.uk/consult/supremecourt/responses/sc022.pdf| title= DCA| accessdate= 2006-11-06
*cite web | url= http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmconst/uc48| title= Stationery Office - UK Parliament| accessdate= 2006-11-06
*cite web | url= http://www.patfinucanecentre.org/pmcbride/pmcbarticles.html| title= Pat Finucane Center, Derry, Northern Ireland| accessdate= 2006-11-06