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	Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1834 Cockburn was made a member of the commission to inquire into the state of the corporations of England and Wales.
		Cockburn, briefed on behalf of the assassin, made a speech which helped to establish the insanity defense in Britain for the next century.
		Cockburn made an exhaustive study of the medical aspects of the case and won a conviction after a twelve-day trial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Cockburn_(Lord_Chief_Justice) (788 words)

	LORD CHIEF JUSTICE - Online Information article about LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
		Act the king's bench and the common pleas were each presided over by a lord chief justice, and the lord chief justice of the king's bench was nominal head of all the three courts, and held the title of lord chief justice of England.
		Cockburn in 1859 and entailed by him on all holders of the office.
		The salary of the chief justice is $13,000 and that of the associates $12,500.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LORD_CHIEF_JUSTICE.html (1186 words)

	Alexander Cockburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Claud Cockburn (pronounced kōbɜːn, "co-burn"), born June 6, 1941, is a self-described radical Irish journalist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1973.
		Alan Dershowitz recently stated that Cockburn was one of three leaders (along with Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky) who are engaged in an attempt to discredit and malign him.
		Alexander Cockburn has been accused of publishing anti-Semitic material by conservative and/or pro-Israel media analysts, academics, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other journalists, including his peers at The Nation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Cockburn (1179 words)

	alexander cockburn
		Alexander Cockburn was asked to leave the The Village Voice after it had emerged that he had accepted money from Palestinian organizations without disclosing this in his middle east commentary.
		Cockburn is a strident opponent of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks (even going so far as to cite them as evidence of a Tenth Crusade).
		Alexander Cockburn is a regular contributor to the Anderson Valley Advertiser.
	www.crusades-history.com /Alexander-Cockburn.aspx (310 words)

	Clan Cockburn
		In 1595 Sir William Cockburn was granted the Barony of Langton, Berwickshire and his descendant, Sir Alexander Cockburn (1802-80) was Lord Chief Justice of England.
		Henry Cockburn (1779-1854), son of a sheriff of Midlothian, judge and man of letters was made Lord Cockburn in 1834.
		John Cockburn of Ormiston held hereditary office of Constable of Haddington and Lord Ormiston, 'The Curse of Scotland', was zealous in suppressing the 1715 Rising.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/atoc/cockbur2.html (285 words)

	Descendants of Sir William Cockburn
		Sir William was third in descent from Alexander DE COCKBURN, who was created Heritable Usher of the White Rod 10 Feb 1373 and was afterwards Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of Robert II and Robert III.
		Alexander was son of Alexander DE COCKBURN and Mary DE VIPONT or WEAPONT.
		Ancestor of James COCKBURN of Ryselaw, in the parish of Fogo, Berwickshire, said to have been created a baronet of Scotland in 1628, whose line failed ca.
	www.mit.edu /~dfm/genealogy/cockburn.html (450 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He was called to the bar in 1829, and a volume of reports on election cases (1832) brought him into national prominence as a trial lawyer.
		He was noted particularly for his defense advocacy, one of his most famous successes being the acquittal (1843) of Daniel McNaghten, who had killed Sir Robert Peel's secretary, on grounds of insanity; the "McNaghten rules" became the basic definition of criminal responsibility in most English-speaking jurisdictions.
		He served as attorney general (1851-56) and was chief justice of common pleas (1856-59) and lord chief justice (1859-80), presiding over the famous Tichborne case.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cockburna1.asp (355 words)

	Family Tree genealogy and Scottish clan history from AncestralScotland - Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The name Cockburn is of uncertain origin but may be a corruption of the Old English name Colbrand.The first recorded Cockburn is Peres de Cockburne who gave homage to Edward I of England, his name appearing on the Ragman Roll of 1296.
		Sir Alexander Cockburn, who was married to Sir William de Vipont’s daughter who owned the lands of Langton in Berwickshire, was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
		Henry Cockburn (1779-1854) was the son of a sheriff of Midlothian.
	www.ancestralscotland.com /clandetails.html?clan=cockburn.html (360 words)

	Alexander Cockburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alexander Claud Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (born June 6, 1941) is a radical Irish journalist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1973.
		Born in Scotland, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland, son of the well-known Socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn.
		At times acerbic, Cockburn can also be gently ironic, once declaring [[Gerald Ford America's greatest president for doing the least damage and praising the Lewinsky scandal's entertainment value.
	alexander-cockburn.mindbit.com (538 words)

	Clan Cockburn from Scottish Themes, Scotland
		The lands of Cockburn were in Berwickshire and the name became widespread in the 13th century, though it is uncertain where this name came from.
		The first recorded Cockburn is Peres de Cockburne who gave homage to Edward I of England, his name appearing on the Ragman Roll of 1296.
		His grandson, also named Sir Alexander Cockburn, was created hereditary Usher in February 1373, an office held as a adjunct to the barony of Langton, Berwickshire, later confirmed via a charter of James IV in 1504.
	www.scottishthemes.com /clan/clan_cockburn.html (395 words)

	Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor, and the presiding judge of Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal, and of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court.
		That of the Exchequer Court was styled as the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and that of the Common Pleas was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, leaving the head of the King's (or Queen's) Bench to be known simply as the Lord Chief Justice.
		The Lord Chief Justice's equivalent in Scotland is the Lord President of the Court of Session, who also holds the post of Lord Justice-General in the High Court of Justiciary.
	lord-chief-justice-of-england-and-wales.ask.dyndns.dk (1225 words)

	Sir William Erle - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR WILLIAM ERLE (1793-1880), English lawyer and judge, was born at Fifehead-Magdalen, Dorset, on the 1st of October 1793, and was educated at Winchester and at New College, Oxford.
		He was transferred to the queen's bench in the following year, and in 1859 came back to the common pleas as chief justice upon the promotion of Sir Alexander Cockburn.
		He retired in 1866, receiving the highest eulogiums for the ability and impartiality with which he had discharged the judicial office.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_William_Erle (139 words)

	The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Alexander Cockburn
		In the Senate Justice Committee's questioning of Roberts, Feingold's tough interrogation extracted damaging testimony from Roberts on the nominee's view that U.S. citizens can be held indefinitely, without access to attornies, on the thinnest suspicions that they might be associated with a terrorist organization.
		Then, Feingold voted to confirm the 50-year-old Roberts as chief justice, a post he may well hold through most of the first half of the twenty-first century.
		Alexander Cockburn is coeditor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch.
	www.freepress.org /columns/display/2/2005/1219 (1176 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 106, GENEVA ARBITRATION: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Esq., appointed by the president of the United States, and lord chief justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, appointed by the queen of Great Britain.
		Adams, seconded by Sir Alexander Cockburn, Count Sclopis was made president, and Mr.
		Alexander Favrot, of Switzerland, was elected to be the secretary of the tribunal.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy497.html (741 words)

	Debating the Antiwar Movement
		Cockburn had it dead on when he wrote in these very pages on December 31, 1990: "I wish people would stop writing to remind me that in the 1930s leftists of principle--Trotsky and Togliatti are two favorites cited by my correspondents--supported feudal Ethiopia against the invading Italians.
		Cockburn was furious that WWP sectarians would sink the peace movement with their rigid politics when he added: "The Bonkerists insist that Saddam and Iraq not be criticized, thus instantly placing themselves in an immoral and tactically impossible situation, as anyone talking about the crisis on television or radio will understand.
		Cockburn, on the other hand, in that same 1990 column, actively urged his readers to not attend the rally organized by, as he put it, the "Bonkerists" of the Workers World Party.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20021223/exchange (2378 words)

	Alexander Cockburn\| From Mitch to Katrina—Nature is Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Because Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda flew to the advance Israeli positions from which the Israeli gunners were indiscriminately (NYT reporter Tom Friedman's word, censored at the time) shelling Beirut, to show solidarity with Israeli forces and to bolster Tom's political position in California.
		People who raised the issue of justice for Palestinians were told year after year that it was a "divisive" issue to raise, would rock the boat, set the cat among the pigeons, cause ructions.
		Alexander Cockburn, a leading political and cultural commentator, is a founder with Jeffrey St. Clair of COUNTERPUNCH, where this column appeared on Sept. 3, 2005.
	www.cjonline.org /cockburnMicthToKatrina.cfm (3625 words)

	Trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: Judgment Part5
		The question, therefore, is this, whether if a person charged with a crime is found in this country, it is the duty of the Court to take care that such a party shall be amenable to justice, or whether we are to consider the circumstances under which she was brought here.
		Nelson and Brand (1867), the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Alexander Cockburn, said (as quoted in O'Higgins, "Unlawful Seizure and Irregular Extradition," 36 British Yearbook of International Law, 1960, p.
		The Chief Justice dismissed the application on the ground that (p.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/Eichmanne.htm (3669 words)

	New Left Review - Alexander Cockburn: The Year of Surrendering Quietly
		Alexander Cockburn on the great silence of progressive America as the Democratic candidate pledges more troops for Iraq, greater fiscal austerity and a strong hand in the war on terror.
		Beers was one of the architects of Plan Colombia, ardently defending the coca-eradication programme that saw peasants and their farms doused with glyphosate.
		The struggle for Palestinian justice has grown from near invisibility in the early 1970s to a substantial movement active across the entire United States, notably in church and community groups and on campuses.
	newleftreview.org /A2523 (6481 words)

	The Free Press -- Independent News Media - National Issues
		Already he's being talked up as maybe the next chief justice, replacing William Rehnquist, the justice he formerly clerked for.
		He's 50, but he seems a lot older, and although people are reckoning that he could be still on the bench in 2035, those bottled-up Midwesterners have a tendency to swerve prematurely into the graveyard.
		The prime lobby that should feel gratified by his nomination is, of course, Big Business, the protection of whose interests has been Roberts's chief concern throughout his career, and the protection of whose interests has always been the prime concern of the U.S. Supreme Court.
	www.freepress.org /departments.php/display/20/2005/1382 (1960 words)

	George W. Bush: The Death Penalty Governor by Alexander Cockburn
		Check it out on www.gwbush.com, carefully described on Yahoo as a ``parody'' site, but as useful a place as any to locate Gov. Bush's leadership skills and decision-making powers.
		Bush has two vulnerabilities he can't disguise: He's the son of George H.W. Bush, and he's chief executive officer of the Texas death industry.
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	www.commondreams.org /views/020900-105.htm (1015 words)

	Mike Whitney: Death of a Partisan Chief Justice
		The man was the worst chief justice to ever serve on the Supreme Court; a complete failure who disgraced his office and the people he was supposed to serve.
		Justice John Paul Stevens' summarized the feelings of most Americans who reject the idea that citizens can be stripped of their rights according to presidential edict.
		The man was a miserable American and a dead-loss as a chief justice.
	www.counterpunch.org /whitney09062005.html (2615 words)

	Sir Alexander Cockburn - Lord Chief Justice antique print, vintage Sir Alexander Cockburn - Lord Chief Justice art
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	To Smack or Not To Smack by Barbara Lewis
		Under the existing law, parents can use "moderate and reasonable" corporal punishment.
		This status quo dates back to 1860 when the then Chief Justice, Sir Alexander Cockburn, declared: "By the law of England, a parent may, for the purpose of correcting what is evil in the child, inflict moderate and reasonable corporal punishment."
		In recent months, there have been efforts to change the laws established during the Victorian era, but a complete ban on corporal punishment has not yet taken place.
	www.boloji.com /wfs2/wfs284.htm (961 words)

	Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn
		Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund, 1802–80, British jurist.
		In Parliament, Cockburn successfully defended Lord Palmerston's handling of the “Don Pacifico”; dispute (1850).
		More on Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn from Fact Monster:
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0812730.html (175 words)

	Manhunt: Anderson Pursues His Demon, by Alexander Cockburn [Judi Bari Bombing Case]
		He'd drive down to visit Judi in Highland Hospital in Oakland and relay news of her condition to the AVA's readers, half of whom live in Mendocino County, the other half being a nationwide AVA fan club.
		Back then, Anderson was pretty much in Judi's corner, and the AVA's columns hospitable to her vigorous surmises -- chief among which was the charge that the FBI, in league with Big Timber, had tried to kill her and Cherney.
		It was an unconvincing charge, but it lives on in the somewhat less dramatic lawsuit currently brought by Cherney et al.
	www.theava.com /00/03-08-manhunt.html (3810 words)

	Ralph Nader: The CEO's Chief Justice
		It is not for lack of trying by various citizen groups, including our own, who beseeched one Senator after another to ask this former corporate lawyer about widely reported contemporary conflicts between unusually deceptive or reckless large corporations and real human beings.
		Maybe that is understandable for an advocate, but not for a judge repeatedly referring to his "open mind" and judicial temperament.
		To emphasize the gravity of his nomination, several Senators noted that, given decent health, Judge Roberts could be Chief Justice for 40 years or until 2045.
	www.counterpunch.org /nader09172005.html (2564 words)

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		the proceedings taking the form of a motion for prohibition duly obtained against the ecclesiastical court, which had deprived Dr Cockburn of his office.
		Not long after this, Sir Robert Peel's secretary, Edward Drummond, was shot by Daniel McNaughten, and Cockburn, briefed on behalf of the assassin, not only made a brilliant speech, which established the defence of insanity, but also secured the full publicity of a long report in the Morning Chronicle of March 6 1843.
	localbizus.com /connecticut/bristol/bristol-connecticut-attorney.html (359 words)

	Historical Portrait Sketches and Photographs - Roger Vaughan Picture Library
		Cetewayo, King of the Zulus (from a photograph by Crews, Cape Town)
		Sir Alexander Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice of England
		High quality scans available for reproduction - for a fee - please reference List 113, the description and attach the image to an email.
	www.rogerco.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /cass/port.htm (680 words)

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