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Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner

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Sable in fess issuant from a barrulet wavy Azure fimbriated Argent a representation of the bridge of Clare College Cambridge Proper the whole between two whales spouting naiant counter naiant Gold.
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Two otters each holding in the mouth a trout Gold the compartment comprising a river bank with bulrushes growing therefrom Proper.
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Upon a helm with a wreath Or and Sable a short-eared owl Proper crowned Or supporting with the dexter claw a clarion Azure.
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in 1962, and became an Appellate Judge of Jersey and Guernsey in 1967, serving in both offices until he was appointed a
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of Middle Temple in 1965 and was later treasurer in 1984. He came to public notice acting for victims of
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in 1967, in which he condemned the "callous indifference, incompetence, ignorance and inertia" in the
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in 1957, was treasurer in 1964, vice-chairman in 1966, and chairman in 1968. He was appointed
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in the late 1960s in their action for damages against the manufacturer of the drug,
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On 30 January 1986, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and was made a
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He retired as a Law Lord in 1992 but continued to attend the Lords as a
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in 1980. Three years later, in 1983, he became an honorary fellow of
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Ackner was the son of a Jewish dentist, Dr Conrad Ackner, from
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of his wife (overturning a century of judicial precedent).
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in 1945, practising mainly commercial law. He became a
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Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
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He subsequently appeared in a number of very public
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Ackner

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Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Vienna
First World War
Highgate School
Clare College, Cambridge
fellow
Second World War
Royal Artillery
Admiralty
called to the bar
Middle Temple
Queen's Counsel
bencher
thalidomide
Distillers
public inquiry
Aberfan disaster
National Coal Board
libel
John Bloom
International Herald Tribune
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Joseph Stalin
Lee Kwan Yew
Prime Minister of Singapore
The Spectator
Bar Council

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