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Mervyn Griffith-Jones

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John Mervyn Guthrie Griffith-Jones, CBE MC (1 July 1909 – 13 July 1979) was a British judge and former barrister. [1]

63 relations: Bar council, Barrister, Champions (1984 film), Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Christine Keeler, Christmas Humphreys, City of London, Coldstream Guards, Common Serjeant of London, Councillor, Coventry, Criminal Law Revision Committee, Critical Quarterly, D. H. Lawrence, Daniel Massey (actor), Drug overdose, Eton College, Grantham, Hampstead, Heinemann (publisher), IMDb, John Griffith-Jones, Jonathan Newth, Judge, Kidney failure, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lord-Lieutenant, Mandy Rice-Davies, Middle Temple, Military Cross, Nuremberg trials, Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, Obscene Publications Act 1959, Obscenity, Office of Public Sector Information, Old Bailey, Order of the British Empire, Oxford University Press, Paperback, Penguin Books, Pimlico, Pip Torrens, Private member's bill, Profumo affair, Prosecutor, Quarter session, R v Penguin Books Ltd, Recorder (judge), Robin Griffith-Jones, Roy Jenkins, ..., Ruth Ellis, Scandal (1989 film), Stephen Ward, Temple Church, The Chatterley Affair, The Establishment, The Herald (Glasgow), Trial in absentia, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Walter Baxter, Westminster City Council, World War II. Expand index (13 more) »

Bar council

A bar council (Comhairle an Bharra) or bar association, in a common law jurisdiction with a legal profession split between solicitors and barristers or advocates, is a professional body that regulates the profession of barristers.

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Barrister

A barrister (also known as barrister-at-law or bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Champions (1984 film)

Champions is a 1984 film based on the true story of jockey Bob Champion.

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a 430-bed teaching hospital located in Chelsea, London.

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Christine Keeler

Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and topless showgirl.

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Christmas Humphreys

Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983) was an English barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and later became a judge at the Old Bailey.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Coldstream Guards

The Coldstream Guards (COLDM GDS) is a part of the Guards Division, Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.

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Common Serjeant of London

The Common Serjeant of London (full title The Serjeant-at-Law in the Common Hall) is an ancient British legal office, first recorded in 1291, and is the second most senior permanent judge of the Central Criminal Court after the Recorder of London, acting as deputy to that office, and sitting as a judge in the trial of criminal offences.

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Councillor

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

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Coventry

Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.

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Criminal Law Revision Committee

The Criminal Law Revision Committee of England & Wales is a standing committee of learned legal experts that may be called upon by the Home Secretary to advise on legal issues and to report back recommendations for reform.

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Critical Quarterly

Critical Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the humanities published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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Daniel Massey (actor)

Daniel Raymond Massey (10 October 193325 March 1998) was an English actor and performer.

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Drug overdose

The term drug overdose (or simply overdose or OD) describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced.

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Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

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Grantham

Grantham is a town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Heinemann (publisher)

Heinemann is a publisher of professional resources and a provider of educational services established in 1978 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as a U.S. subsidiary of Heinemann UK.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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John Griffith-Jones

John Guthrie Griffith-Jones (born 11 May 1954) is a British accountant.

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Jonathan Newth

Jonathan Newth (born 6 March 1939 in Devon) is a British actor, best known for his performances in television.

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Judge

A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges.

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Kidney failure

Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys no longer work.

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia.

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Lord-Lieutenant

The Lord-Lieutenant is the British monarch's personal representative in each county of the United Kingdom.

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Mandy Rice-Davies

Mandy Rice-Davies, formerly named Marylin R Davies, (21 October 1944 – 18 December 2014) was a British model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.

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Middle Temple

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn.

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Military Cross

The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

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Nuremberg trials

The Nuremberg trials (Die Nürnberger Prozesse) were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.

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Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring, and Rudolf Hess.

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Obscene Publications Act 1959

The Obscene Publications Act 1959 (c. 66) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament that significantly reformed the law related to obscenity in England and Wales.

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Obscenity

An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time.

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Office of Public Sector Information

The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.

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Old Bailey

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey from the street on which it stands, is a court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Pimlico

Pimlico is a small area within central London in the City of Westminster.

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Pip Torrens

Philip Dean "Pip" Torrens (born 2 June 1960) is an English actor.

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Private member's bill

A private member's bill in a parliamentary system of government is a bill (proposed law) introduced into a legislature by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive branch.

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Profumo affair

The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship in 1961 between John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old would-be model.

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Prosecutor

A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system.

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Quarter session

The courts of quarter sessions or quarter sessions were local courts traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England (including Wales) from 1388 until 1707, then in 18th-century Great Britain, in the later United Kingdom, and in other dominions of the British Empire.

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R v Penguin Books Ltd

R v Penguin Books Ltd was the public prosecution in the UK at the Old Bailey of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 for the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover.

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Recorder (judge)

A Recorder is a judicial officer in England and Wales and some other common law jurisdictions.

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Robin Griffith-Jones

Robin Griffith-Jones FSA (born 1956) is a Church of England priest, Master of the Temple in London and a lecturer at King's College, London.

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Roy Jenkins

Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British Labour Party, SDP and Liberal Democrat politician, and biographer of British political leaders.

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Ruth Ellis

Ruth Ellis (9 October 1926 – 13 July 1955) was a British model and nightclub hostess.

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Scandal (1989 film)

Scandal is a 1989 British drama film, a fictionalised account of the Profumo Affair that rocked the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

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Stephen Ward

Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British political scandal which brought about the resignation of John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and contributed to the defeat of the Conservative government a year later.

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Temple Church

The Temple Church is a late 12th-century church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters.

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The Chatterley Affair

The Chatterley Affair is a BBC television drama, produced by BBC Wales and broadcast on BBC Four on 20 March 2006.

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The Establishment

The Establishment generally denotes a dominant group or elite that holds power or authority in a nation or organisation.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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Trial in absentia

Trial in absentia is a criminal proceeding in a court of law in which the person who is subject to it is not physically present at those proceedings.

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Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Walter Baxter

Walter Baxter (17 May 1915 – 25 July 1994) was an English novelist, best known for writing two controversial novels.

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Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_Griffith-Jones

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