List of lawyers and judges associated with Balliol College, Oxford

This is a list of lawyers and judges associated with Balliol College, Oxford.

Judges ImageNameJoinDateRoleDictaRefsJulian Knowles1987High Court Judgethe police's treatment of the Claimant thereafter disproportionately interfered with his right of freedom of expression, which is an essential component of democracy Miller v College of Police EWHC 225 (Admin)Robert Reed1978 President of the Supreme Courta decision to prorogue Parliament will be unlawful if the prorogation has the effect of frustrating or preventing, without reasonable justification, the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions as a legislature Miller/Cherry UKSC 41Alan Rodger1969 Justice of the Supreme Courtjust as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates.HJ and HT v Home Secretary UKSC 31William Nimmo Smith1961Judge of Supreme Courts of Justice, ScotlandWe find it impossible to accept that there are categories of person, such as footballers, of whom it may be said, a priori and without other evidence, that they are "celebrities" Scottish Daily Record v Procurator Fiscal HCJAC 24 Mathew Thorpe1957Lord Justice of Appealthe very different role and functions of men and women, and the reality that those who sacrifice the opportunity to provide full-time care for their children in favour of a highly competitive professional race do question the purpose of all that striving, and question whether they should not re-evaluate their life before the children have grown too old to benefit S (CHILDREN) Re: S (Children) EWCA Civ 583Sir Henry Brooke1957Lord Justice of AppealThe networked computer, supplied for the purposes of managing the court's current caseload, is surely going to be as important a judicial tool for the procedural judge in the new Millennium as the quill-pen and the chamber-pot behind the screen in the corner of the court was to the judges of Charles Dickens's day Brooke H, 'Computers and Judges', Commentary, 1997 (3) The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT) Thomas Bingham1954Lord Chief Justice"head and shoulders above everybody else in the Law in my view…yes just outstanding…his clarity of thought, his academic knowledge. I think almost everyone would say that he was, you know, the great lawyer of his generation" (Nick Phillips}"there are no circumstances in which a judge is entitled to direct a jury to return a verdict of guilty"R v Wang UKHL 9Balliol College Register (Seventh Edition) by Tom Bewley and John Jones. 2005.Brian Hutton1950Lord Chief Justice of Northern IrelandI am satisfied that Dr Kelly took his own life and that the principal cause of death was bleeding from incised wounds to his left wrist which Dr Kelly had inflicted on himself with the knife found beside his body. The Hutton Enquiry Report 2004Alan Stewart Orr1933Lord Justice of AppealAlan Orr was a quiet unassuming judge of exceptional quality. His career reminds us that good judges do not need, and are often better without, a charismatic public personality. In court he listened, he perceived truth with a quick and accurate mind and he knew the law: the result was findings of fact based on a detailed and perceptive understanding of the evidence, with the law applied accurately and lucidly. Not many appeals against an Orr judgement succeeded.Balliol College Register (Fifth Edition) by John Jones and Sally Viney 1983John Marshall Harlan II1920Rhodes ScholarAssociate Justice of the US Supreme Court Fellow, American Academy of Arts and SciencesDivorced from their 'prurient interest' appeal to the unfortunate persons whose patronage they were aimed at capturing (a separate issue), these portrayals of the male nude cannot fairly be regarded as more objectionable than many portrayals of the female nude that society tolerates.Enterprises, Inc. v. Day 370 U.S. 478 1962Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953Raymond Evershed1919Master of the RollsAnswering the question whether a right to use a park satisfied the qualities of an easement, Evershed M.R. held, 'Its use for the purposes, not only of exercise and rest but also for such domestic purposes as were suggested in argument—for example, for taking out small children in perambulators or otherwise—is not fairly to be described as one of mere recreation or amusement, and is clearly beneficial to the premises to which it is attached'.Re Ellenborough Park Ch 131, 179.: 362Charles Bowen1853Lord Justice of AppealCoined the phrase "the man on the Clapham omnibus" denoting the legal concept of a reasonable person.Sir Richard Henn Collins MR in McQuire v. Western Morning News ( 2 KB 100) Balliol College Register (Second Edition)Joseph William Chitty1847High Court JusticeLiberal MP for City of Oxford 1880When a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling in his courtroom, he aptly quoted 'fiat justitia, ruat coelum' ('let justice be done though the heavens fall') and he once famously remarked that 'truth will sometimes leak out even through an affidavit' Sir Joseph William Chitty ODNBJohn Coleridge1838Lord Chief Justicea man has no right to declare temptation to be an excuse, though he might himself have yielded to it, nor allow compassion for the criminal to change or weaken in any manner the legal definition of the crime. It is therefore our duty to declare that the prisoners' act in this case was wilful murder, that the facts as stated in the verdict are no legal justification of the homicide; and to say that in our unanimous opinion the prisoners are upon this special verdict guilty of murder.R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, DCHenry Bathurst1730Lord High ChancellorMP for Cirencester 1735He was instrumental in writing the Intolerable Acts, most notably the Boston Port Act 1774 which led to the Boston Tea Party and revolution. Thomas Coventry1592Lord Keeper of the Great SealMP for Droitwich 1621In 1631 he passed sentence of death on Lord Audley who was convicted of raping his wife and committing sodomy with two of his servantsJohn Popham1549Lord Chief Justice 1592–1607 MP for Lyme Regis in 1558 and for Bristol in 1571In 1595 Popham presided over the trial of the Jesuit Robert Southwell and passed a sentence of death by hanging, drawing and quartering. He also presided over the trials of Sir Walter Raleigh (1603) and the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, including Guy Fawkes (1606). He was also involved in the trial at Fotheringhay Castle of Mary, Queen of Scots (1587) which resulted in her execution.John Popham ODNB. The college does not have an extant record of his being a student and the university has no record of his receiving a degree.

Lawyers ImageNameJoinDateBranchFocusRefsGautam Bhatia2011Rhodes ScholarIndia Constitutional law Offend, Shock, Or Disturb: Free Speech Under the Indian Constitution 2016Also Science fiction author Jennifer Robinson2006Rhodes ScholarHuman rights barristerthe "alphabet soup" caseJulian Assange and Wikileaks"Silenced Women: Why The Law Fails Women and How to Fight Back" 2024Rose-Marie Belle Antoine1994Labour lawProfessor of Labor Law and Offshore Financial Lawpro-vice chancellor, graduate studies, University of the West IndiesClare Moriarty1982Chief Executive Citizens AdvicePermanent Secretary at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and then Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European UnionJoel Bakan1981Constitutional lawProfessor, University of ColumbiaThe New Corporation: How "good" corporations are bad for democracy 2020Simon Walsh1980Police law barristerMagistrateJane Stapleton1980FBA, FellowLaw of tortErnest E. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Texas at AustinMaster of Christ's College, Cambridge 2016-2022Hugh Tomlinson1973Media lawPrivacy lawbarristerCo-founder of Matrix Chambers 2000George Carman1949Celebrity defence barristerDefended Jeremy Thorpe, leader of the Liberal Party against charges of conspiracy and incitement to murderPeter Benenson1939Human rights barristerfounder Amnesty InternationalNicholas Katzenbach1947Rhodes ScholarUS Attorney GeneralConfronted George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, who was standing in a schoolhouse door preventing the integration of black students 1963Courtenay Ilbert1860Constitutional law Clerk of the House of CommonsCharles Isaac Elton1856property lawantiquaryMP West Somerset 1884"The Great Book Collectors"Albert Venn Dicey1853Constitutional lawProfessor at OxfordProfessor at LSEpopularised the phrase "the rule of law"

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