Sir Malcolm Pill
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British judge (born 1938)
Sir Malcolm Thomas Pill (born 11 March 1938) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal ,who was the longest-serving member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales upon reaching mandatory retirement at age 75.
Pill was born on 11 March 1938 into a Cardiff family,the son of a barristers' clerk . He was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School ,Cardiff and Trinity College,Cambridge . [ 1] [ 2] He was called to the bar (Gray's Inn ) in 1962.
From 1963 to 1964,he was Third Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [ 3] [ 1] and spent a period in Geneva at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights . For nine years he was chairman of the United Kingdom Committee of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. [ 1]
He was a Recorder from 1976 to 1987. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1978,and was appointed a High Court judge on 15 January 1988, [ 4] receiving the customary knighthood ,and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division . From 1989 to 1993,he was Presiding Judge for the Wales and Chester Circuit.[ citation needed ]
He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 1 February 1995, [ 5] and was given the customary Privy Council appointment. Among his most notable judgments is the second appeal in the Stephen Downing case .
He retired from the Court of Appeal on 11 March 2013. [ 6]
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