| The Right Honourable The Lord Templeman |
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| Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
| In office 1982–1995 |
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| Lord Justice of Appeal | |
| In office 1978–1982 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | Sydney Templeman March 3, 1920 |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Joan Rowles (d 1988), Sheila Barton Edworthy (d 2008) |
| Relations | Anthony Templeman |
| Residence | Exeter |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Profession | Barrister |
Sydney William Templeman, Baron Templeman, MBE, PC, is a former British judge. He served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1982 to 1995 in the House of Lords and was created a life peer as Baron Templeman, of White Lackington in the County of Somerset.[1]
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Lord Templeman made significant contributions to English law during his time as a judge, both within and outside his specialist field of intellectual property.
Templeman, who might fairly be said to be of judicially conservative inclination, also gave leading speeches upholding orthodox doctrine against calls for reform in the important land law cases of Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v London Residuary Body [1992] 2 AC 386 and Rhone v Stephens [1994] 2 AC 310. He also sponsored the Land Registration Act 1988, which led to the land register of England and Wales being open to the public for the first time in 1990.
Templeman was also one of the dissenting judges in the famous case of Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA [1986] AC 112, arguing, inter alia, that 16-year-old girls should not be having sex and, therefore, cannot legally consent to being prescribed prescription contraceptives by a physician (thus necessitating parental consent in order to obtain prescription contraceptives).[2]
Prior to his elevation to the House of Lords, he also made significant contribution to English jurisprudence sitting at first instance in EMI Limited v Pandit [1975] 1 All ER 418 when he granted the first Anton Piller order in English legal history.
Also prior to his capacity as a judge, Sydney Templeman QC was an eminent barrister. One notable case which he worked on was the case of Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147 where he was counsel for the respondents (the Foreign Compensation Commission).
Lord Templeman has two sons, Peter and Michael (the former a Church of England vicar, the latter a barrister), and one of his nephews, Anthony John Templeman, is a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
English cases in which Lord Templeman gave speeches which influenced the direction of English law include: