Key legal figure honoured by Aberystwyth

The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Pill, a key figure in the UK legal sector has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Aberystwyth University.
Sir Malcolm Thomas Pill has had a distinguished career in the practice of the law as Counsel and Queen’s Counsel and in the administration of justice as Recorder, Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division and as a Lord Justice of Appeal.
He is the longest-serving Lord Justice of Appeal, and the most senior member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
His very distinguished career as counsel and judge was centered on Wales and more particularly Cardiff where he practised as counsel and sat as Recorder and judge until his elevation to the Court of Appeal in 1995.
He also became 3rd Secretary at the Foreign Office and spent a period in Geneva at the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
He was chairman of the Welsh Centre of the United Nations Association Trust and later became chairman of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs and for a period of some nine years he was the chairman of the United Kingdom Committee of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign.
The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Pill was presented by Winston Roddick QC, Vice President of
Aberystwyth University.
He was one of seven Fellows to be honoured by Aberystwyth University during the 2011 Graduation Ceremonies.
See earlier post -
http://sirgarblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/seven-fellows-honoured-by-aberystwyth.html

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