- Lawrence Collins
Sir Lawrence Antony Collins (born
May 7 ,1941 ), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Lawrence Collins, is an Englishjudge . He was formerly a partner in the Englishlaw firm Herbert Smith .Collins studied at the
City of London School , and then atDowning College, Cambridge , graduating with a starred first inLaw and received anLL.M. fromColumbia Law School inNew York . He has been a Fellow ofWolfson College, Cambridge , since 1975, and became aFellow of the British Academy in 1994. He is a member of the "Institut de droit international ". He has been the general editor of "Dicey & Morris ", the standard reference work onconflict of laws , since 1987, and it was retitled "Dicey, Morris and Collins" in its 14th edition, published in 2006. [ [http://www.conflictoflaws.net/2006/publications/publication-dicey-morris-collins-on-the-conflict-of-laws/ Publication: Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws] , conflictoflaws.net,October 14 ,2006 .] He is also the author of many other books and articles onprivate international law .As a
solicitor-advocate , he appeared before the EnglishCourt of Appeal , theJudicial Committee of the House of Lords , and theEuropean Court of Justice . He acted for Government ofChile in the case to extraditeGeneral Pinochet .He and
Arthur Marriott (then atWilmer Cutler & Pickering , laterDebevoise & Plimpton ) were the two first practisingsolicitor s to be appointedQueen's Counsel , onMarch 27 ,1997 , and he sat as a deputyHigh Court judge from 1997. OnSeptember 28 ,2000 , he became the first solicitor to be appointed as a judge of theHigh Court of England and Wales direct from private practice, and only the second solicitor to be appointed to the High Court bench after Sir Michael Sachs in 1993, who had previously sat as acircuit judge for 9 years. [ [http://www.observerunlimited.co.uk/print/0,,3965725-103596,00.html Pinochet lawyer to become judge] , "The Observer ",February 21 ,2000 .] [ [http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=77963 Bench pressing] , "The Lawyer ",October 2 ,2000 .] He was assigned to theChancery Division . He became aBencher of theInner Temple in 2001.In a landmark case in 2006, he required file sharers who had refused to settle with the
British Phonographic Industry to pay damages running into thousands of pounds. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4653662.stm Court rules against song-swappers] ,BBC News ,January 27 ,2006 .]His appointment as a
Lord Justice of Appeal was announced onJanuary 11 ,2007 and one month later, he was sworn to thePrivy Council [cite web | url= http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page10898.asp| title= number10.gov.uk| accessdate= 2007-02-03] . He is the first solicitor to be appointed to this level of the English judiciary. [ [http://www.tendowningstreet.gov.uk/output/page10697.asp Press release] ,10 Downing Street ,January 8 ,2006 .]References
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