KENNETH DIPLOCK, BARON DIPLOCK

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'Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock' (8 December 190714 October 1985) was an English judge and Law Lord.

Contents
Early life
Career
Contributions to Legal Thought
Famous judgments
See also
External link

Early life


Born the son of a Croydon solicitor, he attended Whitgift School and University College, Oxford, where he was later to become an Honorary Fellow.

Career


He became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1968 and was elevated as an life peer with the title 'Baron Diplock', of Wansford in the County of Huntingdonshire to the House of Lords
As Lord Diplock, he chaired a commission set up in 1972 to consider legal measures against terrorism in Northern Ireland, which led to the establishment of the juryless Diplock courts with which his name is now associated.

Contributions to Legal Thought


He made many contributions to legal thought and pushed the law in new and unique directions.
The current typology of grounds for judicial review is due to Lord Diplock.

★ Procedural Impropriety

★ Nemo Iudex (Bias Rule)

★ Audi Alteram Partem (Hearing rule)

★ Illegality

★ Ultravires

★ Simple Ultravires

★ Extended Ultravires

★ Procedural Ultravires

★ Fettering

★ Irrationality

★ Wednesbury Irrationality

★ Lack of Proportionality

Famous judgments



of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service''[1985] AC 374

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

See also


Judicial Review in English Law

External link



Report of the Commission to Consider Legal Procedures to deal with Terrorist Activities in Northern Ireland

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