Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell

Robert Douglas Carswell, Baron Carswell, PC KC, (28 June 1934 – 4 May 2023) was a British barrister and judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.The son of Alan Carswell and his wife Nance Corlett, Robert Carswell was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Pembroke College, Oxford where he received a BA in Classics and Law in 1956 (later converted to an MA).In 1984, he became Judge of the High Court of Justice Northern Ireland, a post he held until 1992.He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary[2] as Baron Carswell, of Killeen in the County of Down on 12 January 2004.[5] From 2009 to 2010, Lord Carswell chaired an inquiry into the roles of Jersey's Crown Officers (the Bailiff, Deputy Bailiff, Attorney General and Solicitor General), presenting a report recommending reforms to the States of Jersey on 6 December 2010.
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