MILLETT, SIR PETER, BARON
- MILLETT, SIR PETER, BARON
- MILLETT, SIR PETER, BARON (1932– ), British barrister and
judge. Born in London and educated at Harrow and Cambridge, Millett was
called to the bar at the Middle Temple and became a QC in
1973, having served (1967–73) as standing junior counsel to the
Department of Trade and Industry. From 1986 to 1994 he served as a judge
of the High Court (Chancery Division), and then became a judge of the
Court of Appeal (1994–98), and a lord of appeal in Ordinary from 1998 to
2004. Lord Millett was one of the most prominent senior Freemasons in
the British judiciary and wrote widely on aspects of the law. He was
knighted in 1986 and made a life peer in 1998.
(William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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