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Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen

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Charles Russell,


Died
  
June 23, 1986

Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen Charles Ritchie Russell Baron Russell of Killowen by Godfrey Argent

Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, PC (12 January 1908 – 23 June 1986) was a British judge and law lord.

The son of the Lord Russell of Killowen, Russell was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1962 to 1975, having been made also a Privy Councillor in 1962.

On 30 September 1975, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and became additionally a life peer with the title Baron Russell of Killowen, of Killowen in the County Down, the same title that his grandfather and father had held.

Famous judgments

  • Whitehouse -v- Lemon; Whitehouse -v- Gay News Ltd On Appeal From Regina -v- Lemon[1979] 2 WLR 281
  • References

    Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen Wikipedia