Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann

Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, Human rights, Intellectual property, Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong)
Herausgegeben:Cirino, Zheng

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leonard Hubert "Lenny" Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, born 8 May 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a retired senior British judge. He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1995 to 2009. Well known for his lively decisions and willingness to break with convention, he has had an especially large impact on shareholder actions in UK company law, in restricting tort liability for public authorities, human rights and on intellectual property law, in particular patents . He is also a non-permanent judge of Hong Kong SAR Court of Final Appeal. Born in Cape Town, Lord Hoffmann was the son of a well-known solicitor. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and then attended The Queen's College, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar, where he studied for the BCL and won the Vinerian Scholarship. After being called to the Bar, Gray s Inn in 1964, he became one of themost sought after and highly-priced barristers of his generation and was quickly made a judge, having been made QC in 1977.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Civ
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786138117483
• ISBN-10: 6138117484
• Artikelnr.: 34491760