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abundantly plain: there is no question here but this woman shot this man ... You will not hear one word from me – or from the lady herself – questioning that." The jury took 23 minutes to find Ellis guilty; she was sentenced to be hanged, the last woman executed for murder in the United
Kingdom. Public revulsion at the case is thought to have played a part in the abolition of
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recorders, Stevenson summed up his attitude: "You sentence off the top of your head. If the man's a shit, down he goes. If there's something to be said for him, you do your best not to put him inside." Despite his stern and authoritarian reputation, in the 1970s he sometimes submitted letters to the Court of Appeal supporting the reduction of his sentences.
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It is, we think, clear ... that it is wrong to say to a jury "Because the accused exercised what is undoubtedly his right, the privilege of remaining silent, you may draw an inference of guilt"; it is quite a different matter to say "this accused, as he is entitled to do, has not advanced at an
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He holds the record among Old Bailey judges for having his sentences queried and taken to appeal. He also holds the record for getting away with it. He has gradually become such a stock hate-figure that lawyers tend automatically to advise their clients, if found guilty, to take their cases higher
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to conceal the deficiencies of the prosection was an abuse of process, which left an innocent man under the suspicion that there might have been something in the talk of mass murder after all". Stevenson was of the opinion that had he been allowed to, he "could have successfully prosecuted Adams on
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When asked towards the end of his career whether he had been stung by the criticism he had received, Stevenson replied "A lot of my colleagues are just constipated
Methodists". There was no compulsory retirement age for a judge with Stevenson's length of service, which resulted in some speculation
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that turned violent. He noted that the sentences would have been even longer but for the students' exposure to "the evil influence of some members of the university". There were few, if any, examples of serious violence at student demonstrations in the years which followed the trial. The following
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against the charge of murdering her lover. Stevenson's decision to keep his cross-examination of the prosecution witnesses to a minimum, and his "near silent performance in court", have been severely criticised by Muriel
Jakubait, Ellis's sister. He opened the defence by saying: "Let me make this
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land for bombing practice before the war, promising to return it after the end of hostilities. When they did not honour this promise, the
Martens successfully campaigned to be allowed to buy the land back. The case led to a public enquiry, changes in the law on compulsory purchase, and the first
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on the Sussex coast was called
Truncheons, sometimes taken to reflect his authoritarian views, but the area had been known by that name for many years before his arrival. Following his retirement, Stevenson called for the restoration of the death penalty for all murders, and made frequent guest
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Eustace Roskill cautions that "It would be wrong to judge Stevenson simply by the notoriety of a few cases .... he showed great mercy to those whom he saw to be victims rather than aggressors." In the early 1970s, while conducting training sessions in sentencing for newly appointed
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Stevenson made his comment while sentencing a 61-year-old man to five years in prison for homosexual acts involving teenagers: "Cases such as these are all the more grave in these days because some years ago
Parliament committed itself to pass a buggers' charter
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Stevenson trying a manslaughter case in which a man who had run over a child pleaded, in extenuation, that he had thought the child was a dog; the judge, a great spaniel lover, promptly gave him the maximum sentence.
429:, "almost always with small fees", and he made steady progress until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. He did very little criminal work in this part of his career. In 1940 he joined the army and served until 1945 as a
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Stevenson believed that it was the judge's duty to help prevent crime by imposing robust punishments on those found guilty, and he became noted for the severity of his sentencing, which led to occasional calls from the
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Stevenson married Anna Cecilia Francesca Imelda Reinstein, daughter of a Bavarian hairdresser, in 1929. They had one daughter. He "turned her out" after he discovered that she had been having an affair with
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in London, intending that the young Stevenson would join the family firm once his schooling was complete. There was no money available to allow him to attend university, so Stevenson studied for an external
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a few days later. From 1958 until 1960, he was a member of an Inter-Departmental Committee on Human Artificial Insemination. For the first four years of his judicial career Stevenson was assigned to the
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to life imprisonment in 1969, with a recommendation that they serve not less than 30 years each. In 1970 Stevenson passed long sentences on eight Cambridge University students who took part in the
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earlier stage the explanation that has been offered to you today; you the jury may take that into account when you are assessing the weight that you think it right to attribute to the explanation."
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I must confess I cannot tell whether you are innocent or guilty. I am giving you three years. If you are guilty you have got off lightly, if innocent let this be a lesson to you.
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that reflects what he proposed. His earlier suggestion that defendants in criminal trials should be forced to answer prosecution questions has not been adopted.
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until 1961, and became the first president of the newly independent Kenya in 1964. Also in 1954 Stevenson represented the Marten family in the
505:; Kenyatta was a moderate, and is now considered unlikely to have been a member of the organisation. He was imprisoned until 1959, lived under
644:. It is a terrible place. You can go back there." In similar vein he told a husband involved in a divorce case that his decision to live in
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calling for his resignation. In 1976 the Court of Appeal overturned three of Stevenson's decisions in a single day, and
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minister, died when his son was fourteen years old, plunging the family into relative poverty. An uncle who was a
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appearances on television until his health and eyesight began to fail. Among the programmes he took part in was
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escape." In Stevenson's opinion Adams "was so incredibly lucky to have literally got away with murder".
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was expected to reprieve. Two years later, Stevenson took part in the unsuccessful prosecution of
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1266:United Nations War Crimes Commission (1947).
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324:15 years for conspiracy to cause explosions.
2178:(Google eBooks ed.), John Russell Smith
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1998:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
1992:"Buckmaster, Maurice James (1902–1992)"
1951:"British WWII Spymaster Dies At Age 90"
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2354:People educated at Dulwich College
1558:Regan, Dominic (21 January 2011),
1140:Dowell, Katy (20 September 2010),
1072:"Steed, Henry Wickham (1871–1956)"
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1759:(1964) 50 Cr App R 144, at 148
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692:, a demonstration against the
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83:Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson
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2319:Queen's Bench Division judges
2259:, Pan Books, pp. 31–34,
2119:, Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
1969:"Obituary of Cecile Robinson"
1546:Hallworth & Williams 1983
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386:LLB degree after becoming an
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2021:UK public library membership
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455:affair. The U-boat captain,
42:Mr Justice Stevenson in 1959
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2349:Members of the Inner Temple
2329:20th-century King's Counsel
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418:at 2 Crown Office Row, now
363:, journalist and editor of
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623:Stevenson was appointed a
554:Reginald Manningham-Buller
525:According to fellow judge
327:One of his fellow judges,
2187:, Pen & Sword Books,
1678:, Guardian News and Media
1142:"Lord Bingham, 1933–2010"
1069:Moriss, A. J. A. (2004),
946:The Times Digital Archive
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833:The Bounds of Freedom
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730:parliamentary motion
664:The academic lawyer
406:Shortly after being
203:University of London
151: 1929;
26:The Right Honourable
2364:People from Newquay
2205:, Faber and Faber,
2137:, Waterside Press,
2084:"Memorial Services"
1777:Law Society Gazette
897:rather than prison.
830:'s six-part series
734:UK House of Commons
511:Crichel Down affair
361:Henry Wickham Steed
306:Edith Alice Morrell
298:Gwilym Lloyd George
291:executed for murder
283:compulsory purchase
279:Crichel Down affair
2065:on 3 December 2013
1883:The London Gazette
1860:, 25 November 1971
1705:, 13 February 1976
1606:The London Gazette
1588:The London Gazette
1560:"Strange but True"
1548:, pp. 232–233
1521:, pp. 180–182
1369:, 30 December 1987
1367:The New York Times
1344:The London Gazette
1228:The London Gazette
1119:Viscount Bledisloe
839:Stevenson died in
828:Granada Television
800:Conservative Party
793:Sir Anthony Wagner
785:Maurice Buckmaster
416:Wintringham Stable
304:for the murder of
117:St Leonards-on-Sea
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690:Garden House riot
558:John Bodkin Adams
483:barristers' clerk
457:Heinz-Wilhelm Eck
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408:called to the bar
402:Career at the bar
394:, and joined the
384:London University
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2069:8 September
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1879:"No. 45860"
1787:7 September
1632:6 September
1625:Who Was Who
1602:"No. 41200"
1584:"No. 41192"
1519:Devlin 1986
1410:1 September
1340:"No. 39610"
1309:, uboat.net
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1223:"No. 36069"
1092:1 September
1057:Devlin 1986
841:St Leonards
812:Tom Driberg
597:Lord Devlin
341:St Leonards
337:Lord Devlin
121:East Sussex
2298:Categories
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2012:11 October
1938:Baker 2005
1926:Coote 1993
1424:Cooke 2003
1404:BBC Online
1292:Solis 2010
1146:The Lawyer
1103:required.)
1043:required.)
950:Gale Group
847:References
823:Winchelsea
683:Kray twins
646:Manchester
625:High Court
542:Ruth Ellis
534:Sebag Shaw
347:Early life
313:Kray twins
287:Ruth Ellis
238:insolvency
89:1902-10-17
2088:The Times
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941:The Times
924:Citations
880:The 1965
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375:solicitor
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195:Education
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475:Alan Orr
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