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himself in reporting and editing, with T. F. Ellis, eight volumes of the respected Ellis and
Blackburn reports. Though his repute as a legal author led to his occasional employment in weighty mercantile cases, he was still a stuff gownsman, and better known in the courts as a reporter than as a pleader, when on the transference of Sir
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For some years after his call, he went the northern circuit in a briefless or almost briefless condition. He had no professional connection, no turn for politics, no political interest, and none of the advantages of person and address which make for success in advocacy. During this period employed
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Though greatly respected, he does not appear to have been popular. According to a well-known story, he informed a colleague that he intended to retire in vacation to avoid the trouble of a retirement dinner – the colleague cheerfully replied that this was quite unnecessary since no one would have
156:(18 May 1813 – 8 January 1896) was a British lawyer and judge. The son of a Scottish clergyman, he was educated in Scotland and England, before joining the English bar. He was little known to the legal world before he was elevated from the junior bar to a puisne judgeship in the
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Few controversial issues came before him during his seventeen-year tenure of office as judge of first instance, but the dignity and impartiality with which he presided at the trial (28 October 1867) of the
Manchester
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Blackburn was a member of the royal commissions on the courts of law (1867) and the stock exchange (1877), and presided over the royal commission on the draft criminal code (1878). He was the author of a masterly
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were worthy of a more respected occasion, and his charge to the grand jury of
Middlesex (2 June 1868) on the bill of indictment against the late governor of Jamaica,
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of 1873 and 1875 gave
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in the following month (21, 28 November) He retired in
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by the creation of two judicial life peers, designated "lords of appeal in ordinary".
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in 1859, a position he held until 1876, when he was appointed to the
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Other notable cases in which Lord
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