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22:(1915–1991) was a Scottish judge. A controversial and sometimes very lenient judge he made several important rulings in Scots Law such as Porchetta v Porchetta which established that a child's rights were superior to the rights of a father (or mother) and the child's welfare was the paramount issue.
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From 1969 to 1973 Lord
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on 15 December 1915 the son of Rev
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He married
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Following Bunty's death in 1985 he married
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He retired in 1990 aged 75, the maximum for service as a judge in
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on 31 August 1991. He is buried in the modern extension to
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