| 词条 | William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Cullen of Whitekirk | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KT|QC|PC|FRSE|FREng}} | image = | imagesize = 150px | office = Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session | term_start = 2001 | term_end = 2005 | monarch = Elizabeth II | predecessor = Lord Rodger | successor = Lord Hamilton | office2 = Lord Justice Clerk | term_start2 = 1997 | term_end2 = 2001 | predecessor2 = Lord Ross | successor2 = Lord Gill | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|11|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | birthname = William Douglas Cullen | nationality = Scottish | spouse = Rosamond Mary Downer | party = | children = Christopher, Adrian, Felicity, Sophia | relations = Thomas, Isobel, Angus, Alice, Tristan, Rosibella, Esther (grandchildren) | residence = | alma_mater = University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh | occupation = | profession = Advocate | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} William Douglas Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KT|QC|PC|FRSE|FREng}}[1] (born 18 November 1935) is a former senior member of the Scottish judiciary. He formerly served as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session, and was an additional Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords prior to the transfer of its judicial functions to the Supreme Court. Early lifeWilliam Douglas Cullen was educated at the High School of Dundee and the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1960 and was Standing Junior Counsel to Her Majesty's Customs and Excise from 1970 to 1973. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1973 and served as an Advocate Depute from 1978 to 1981.[2] Judicial careerLord Cullen was a chairman of the Medical Appeal Tribunals from 1977 until his appointment as a judge in 1986.[2] He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session, as Lord Cullen. From 1988 to 1990 he conducted the Public Inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster[3] and in 1996 he chaired the Public Inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School.[2][4] In October 1999 he was appointed to chair the Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry.[2] He was Lord Justice Clerk and president of the Second Division of the Inner House from 1997 to 2001, when he was appointed Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session.[5] In March 2002, Lord Cullen led the 5-judge tribunal at the Scottish Court in the Netherlands which heard the failed appeal of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.[6] On 15 July 2005, Lord Cullen announced his intention to retire in November 2005. On 24 November the Scottish Executive announced that Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, a member of the Inner House of the Court of Session, would succeed him as the new Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session.[7] HonoursIn 2003, Cullen was created a life peer, as Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, of Whitekirk in East Lothian. He sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords until his retirement in 2019.[8] He was also one of five additional Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords. On 25 June 2005, he was elected president of the Saltire Society, replacing The Right Honourable The Lord Sutherland of Houndwood, K.T.[9] On 30 November 2007 it was announced that Lord Cullen would be appointed a Knight of the Thistle.[10] He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony in Edinburgh on 2 July 2008.[11] On 4 September 2009 he was also formally installed as chancellor of Abertay University in Dundee.[12] In 1995, he was appointed an Honorary Fellow[1] of the Royal Academy of Engineering[1] Cullen also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1995 [13] He was sworn in as a Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1997. References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows}} 2. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/467665.stm|title=Scottish judge heads train crash inquiry|date=2000-09-29|work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=2008-07-16}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Cullen|first=The Hon. Lord W. Douglas|title=The public inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster|year=1990|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|location=London|isbn=0101113102|oclc=23102869}} 488 pages, 2 volumes 4. ^{{cite book|author=The Hon Lord Cullen|title=The Public Inquiry into the Shootings at Dunblane Primary School on 13 March 1996|url=http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/scottish/dunblane/dunblane.htm|accessdate=2008-05-31|date=1996-10-16|publisher=The Stationery Office|location=London|isbn=0-10-133862-7|oclc=60187397|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310185343/http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/scottish/dunblane/dunblane.htm|archivedate=10 March 2009|df=dmy-all}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page2750.asp|title=Scottish Judicial Appointments|date=2001-11-13|publisher=10 Downing Street|accessdate=2008-07-16|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20061101012618/number10.gov.uk/page2750|archivedate=1 November 2006|df=dmy-all}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Lockerbie-bomber-loses-his-appeal.2309818.jp|title=Lockerbie bomber loses his appeal|last=King|first=Diane|date=2002-03-14|work=The Scotsman|publisher=Johnston Press Digital Publishing|accessdate=2008-07-16}} 7. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.journalonline.co.uk/news/1002497.aspx|title=Lord Hamilton is new Lord President|date=2005-11-24|work=The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland|publisher=Connect Communications (Scotland) Limited|accessdate=2008-07-15}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-cullen-of-whitekirk/3631|title=Lord Cullen of Whitekirk|publisher=UK Parliament}} 9. ^Saltire Society Website 10. ^{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7484953.stm|title=Public honour for retired judge|date=2008-07-02|work=BBC News|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=2008-07-15}} 11. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4258733.ece|title=Queen creates two new Knights of the Thistle|date=2008-07-02|work=The Times|publisher=Times Newspapers Ltd|accessdate=2008-07-15 | location=London}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abertay.ac.uk/about/theuni/chancellor/|title=The Chancellor of the University - Abertay University|publisher=}} 13. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|last=webperson@hw.ac.uk|website=www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date=2016-04-04}} External links
Lord President of the Court of Session | before=Lord Rodger| after=Lord Hamilton| years=2001–2005}}{{s-aca}}{{Succession box | title = Chancellor of the University of Abertay Dundee | years = 2009–present | before = David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie | after = Incumbent }}{{s-end}}{{Members of the Order of the Thistle}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cullen, William Baron Cullen of Whitekirk}} 19 : 1935 births|Living people|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Crossbench life peers|Knights of the Thistle|Senators of the College of Justice|People educated at the High School of Dundee|Lords President of the Court of Session|Lords Justice-General|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Alumni of the University of St Andrews|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|People from Dundee|Scottish people of Irish descent|Members of the Faculty of Advocates|Scottish Queen's Counsel|People associated with the University of Abertay Dundee|Place of birth missing (living people)|Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
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