| 词条 | Nicholas Wall (judge) |
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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = Sir Nicholas Wall |image = |image_size = |caption = |office = President of the Family Division |term_start = 13 April 2010 |term_end = 1 December 2012 |nominator = Gordon Brown |appointer = Elizabeth II |predecessor = Sir Mark Potter |successor = Sir James Munby |nationality = English |alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge |birth_date = {{birth date|1945|3|14|df=yes}} |birth_name = Nicholas Peter Rathbone Wall |death_date = {{death date and age|2017|2|17|1945|3|14|df=yes}} }} Sir Nicholas Peter Rathbone Wall, PC (14 March 1945 – 17 February 2017) was an English judge who was President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales. Early lifeNicholas Wall was born into a non-wealthy family on 14 March 1945. He won a London County Council scholarship to Dulwich College, an independent day and boarding school for boys in Dulwich in South London, followed by an Exhibition to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, where he read English and then Law.[1] Legal careerWall was called to the bar (Gray's Inn) in 1969 and was made a Bencher in 1993. He became a Queen's Counsel and was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1988. He became a Recorder in 1990. He was appointed to the Family Division of the High Court on 20 April 1993,[2] receiving the customary knighthood. Wall was a Judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (2001–2003) and the Administrative Court (2003–2004). He was promoted to the Court of Appeal on 12 January 2004[3] and consequently made a Privy Counsellor. Wall was nominated to be President of the Family Division by the appointments panel, but the Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw, asked them to reconsider. The panel once again put Wall forward, and he was subsequently appointed to the position on 13 April 2010.[4] Wall retired on 1 December 2012 for health reasons.[5][6] DeathWall died on 17 February 2017. His family stated that he had recently been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, and had taken his own life.[7] References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/mar/01/sir-nicholas-wall-obituary|title=Sir Nicholas Wall obituary|work=The Guardian|author=Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth|date=1 Mar 2017|accessdate=14 October 2018}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wall, Nicholas}}{{UK-law-bio-stub}}2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=53284 |pages=7209–7210 |date=23 April 1993}} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=57179 |page=509 |date=15 January 2004}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |page=6727|issue=59393|date=16 April 2010}} 5. ^{{cite press release |url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/media-releases/2012/number-10-press-release-appt-president-family-division |title=Appointment of President of the Family Division |author=Number10.gov.uk |publisher=Judiciary of England and Wales |date=20 December 2012 |accessdate=20 December 2012}} 6. ^{{cite press release |url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/media-releases/2012/retirement-pfd.htm |title=Retirement of the President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice for England and Wales |publisher=Judiciary of England and Wales |date=28 September 2012 |accessdate=28 September 2012}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39072446 |title= Ex family court head takes own life after dementia diagnosis|author= |date=23 February 2017 |website=BBC News |publisher= |access-date=23 February 2017 |quote=}} 12 : 1945 births|2017 deaths|British Queen's Counsel|English judges|Family Division judges|Knights Bachelor|Members of Gray's Inn|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom|People educated at Dulwich College|Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge|Queen's Counsel 1901–2000|British civil servants who committed suicide |
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