Ross Cranston
| Sir Ross Cranston | |
|---|---|
| Solicitor General for England and Wales | |
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In office 28 July 1998 – 11 June 2001 | |
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Lord Falconer |
| Succeeded by | Harriet Harman |
| Member of Parliament for Dudley North | |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 11 April 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency Established |
| Succeeded by | Ian Austin |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 July 1948 Brisbane, Australia |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland, Harvard Law School, University of Oxford |
Sir Ross Frederick Cranston (born 23 July 1948 in Brisbane, Australia) is a professor of law at London School of Economics and a retired High Court judge, formerly Labour Party politician, in the United Kingdom.
Early life
He attended Wavell State High School in Brisbane, Queensland. He was later a student at University of Queensland where he was awarded BA in 1969 and LLB in 1970. From Harvard Law School, he gained LLM in 1973. From Oxford University, he was awarded DPhil in 1976 and DCL in 1998. He became a barrister of Gray's Inn in 1976.
Cranston was a professor at London School of Economics from 1992-7 and the holder of the Cassell chair in commercial law from 1993 to 1997. Before that he held academic posts in the UK and Australia and the Sir John Lubbock chair in banking law at QMW, being a professor of Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College from 1986-91.
Parliamentary career
He contested Richmond (Yorks) in 1992. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Dudley North at the 1997 general election with more than half of the votes,[1] and served as Solicitor General from 1998 to 2001, when he returned to the back benches. After speculation amongst colleagues, he announced in 2005 that he would not stand for Parliament again in the 2005 election. He was succeeded by Ian Austin.
Law career
He was the Centennial Professor of Law at the LSE from 2005 to 2007, and returned as a professor of law from 2017.[2]
He was appointed as a High Court judge in October 2007, assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[3] Marcel Berlins wrote at the time that his appointment was unusual among judicial appointments in recent years, given that it occurred so soon after the end of his political career.[4] Cranston retired with effect from 16 March 2017.[5]
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Dudley North 1997–2005 |
Succeeded by Ian Austin |
| Legal offices | ||
| Preceded by Lord Falconer of Thoroton |
Solicitor General for England and Wales 1998–2001 |
Succeeded by Harriet Harman |