Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan

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Michael Patrick Nolan, Baron Nolan, PC, is a retired judge in the United Kingdom.

He was educated at Ampleforth College and Wadham College, Oxford.

He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, receiving as a Law lord automatically a life peerage. He took the title Baron Nolan, of Brasted in the County of Kent. Lord Nolan chaired the Committee on Standards in Public Life, set up in the UK by John Major's government after the cash-for-questions affair, and has conducted numerous other inquiries. He was Chancellor of the University of Essex from 1997 to 2003.