Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton
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The Right Honourable The Lord Hutton PC QC |
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| Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland | |
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In office 1988–1997 |
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| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Lord Lowry |
| Succeeded by | Lord Carswell |
| Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
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In office 6 January 1997 – 11 January 2004 |
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| Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | The Lord Woolf |
| Succeeded by | Lord Carswell |
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James Brian Edward Hutton 29 June 1931 Belfast, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton, PC, QC (born 29 June 1931) is a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and British Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
Hutton was born in Belfast in 1931, the son of a railways executive, he won a scholarship to Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford (BA jurisprudence, 1953) before returning to Belfast to become a barrister (after study at Queen's University Belfast), being called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1954. He began working as junior counsel to the Attorney General for Northern Ireland in 1969.
He became Queen's Counsel in 1970. From 1979 to 1988, he was (as Sir Brian Hutton) a High Court judge. In 1988 he became Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, becoming a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland, before moving to England to become a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 6 January 1997. He was consequently granted a life peerage as Baron Hutton, of Bresagh in the County of Down.
On 30 March 1994, as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, he dismissed Private Lee Clegg's appeal against his controversial murder conviction. On 21 March 2002 Lord Hutton was one of four Law Lords to reject David Shayler's application to use a "public interest" defence as defined in section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1989 at his trial.
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