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	Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shawcross opening speech, which lasted two days, was able to undermine any belief that the Nuremberg Trials were a victor's justice, an exacted vengeance against defeated foes.
		Shawcross demonstrated to the court that the laws the defendants had broken had been expressed in international treaties and agreements pre-dating the war, and to which Germany was a party.
		Shawcross' advocacy was instrumental in obtaining convictions against the remaining Nazi leadership on grounds which were perceived as fair and lawful.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hartley_Shawcross (903 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Lord Shawcross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Shawcross was sworn of the Privy Council in 1946, but his propensity to ruffle feathers remained evident - and appeared all the odder because his character was innately courteous and kindly.
		Shawcross was appointed President of the Board of Trade in April 1951, after the resignation of Harold Wilson, but his term of office ended with the defeat of the Labour government in the General Election that October.
		Shawcross was Chancellor of Sussex University from 1965 to 1985, and chairman of the Board of Governors of Dulwich College.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/11/db1101.xml (2181 words)

	Politics \| Lord Shawcross of Friston
		Lord Shawcross of Friston, who has died aged 101, was the brilliant chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership in 1945-46, and seemed destined for the commanding heights of British public life when he joined Clement Attlee's Labour government as attorney general immediately after his first election to parliament in 1945.
		Shawcross revelled in controversy, as shown not only by the insouciant gaffes but also by his readiness, in later life, to attack governments of both colours, and a parallel career as an indefatigable writer of letters and articles in newspapers.
		In 1951, Shawcross was briefed to defend the Daily Mirror in the libel action brought by Winston Churchill over the newspaper's head-line, "Whose finger on the trigger?", which had accused Churchill of warmongering in the Persian crisis.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4709996-108996,00.html (2257 words)

	Bulletin - University of Sussex Newsletter Lord Shawcross celebrates 100th Friday 8 February 2002
		In his memoirs, Lord Shawcross recalled another Sussex appointment: "I was at an early stage appointed chairman of the buildings committee for the whole University, I think on the theory that it would involve one professional man — me — dealing with another professional man, the leading architect.
		Lord Shawcross was elected Chancellor - the University's most senior officer - at a special meeting of Court in 1965.
		Lord Shawcross holds honorary degrees from nine universities in Britain and the USA and has been a director of some 15 companies including EMI, Shell Petroleum and Times Newspapers.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /press_office/bulletin/08feb02/article6.shtml (356 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture Page \| Plain Talk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Lord Shawcross deplores what he calls the strength of outside interests animated by cupidity and greed, and the way in which individual members of the House of Commons are "increasingly regarded as mere "delegates" -- puppets who are expected to manipulate themselves according to the requirements of some section of their constituency.
		Lord Shawcross quotes a famous speech of Burke, the political philosopher, to the sheriffs of Bristol, which I would like to requote.
		Shawcross goes on to say that the government cannot govern and parliament cannot rule if these "powerful outside interests are determined to defy them." There is, in Lord Shawcross's opinion, a powerful and general realisation by the mass of the people that parliament no longer represents the mass of the people.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/480/cu5.htm (601 words)

	Bulletin - University of Sussex Newsletter - Former University Chancellor Lord Shawcross dies - 25th July 2003
		Lord Shawcross, one of the University's founding fathers and the longest-serving Chancellor in its history, has died at the age of 101.
		Lord (Asa) Briggs, who was the University's Vice-Chancellor during Lord Shawcross' chancellorship, said: "He was a very active Chancellor of the University.
		In his memoirs, Lord Shawcross recalled: "I was at an early stage appointed chairman of the buildings committee for the whole university, I think on the theory that it would involve one professional man - me - dealing with another professional man, the leading architect.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /press_office/bulletin/25jul03/article2.shtml (463 words)

	VICTOR BAILEY \| The Shadow of the Gallows: The Death Penalty and the British Labour Government, 1945-51 \| Law and ...
		Additionally, Shawcross argued that the bill should provide also for the abolition or suspension of the death penalty and that "[t]he attitude of the Bench to past proposals for the reform of the criminal law did not suggest that their judgment in this matter was reliable," a brave line from a young government law officer.
		Abolitionists (Shawcross indubitably, Aneurin Bevan most probably, and Shinwell possibly) argued that there was no firm evidence of its deterrent effect (particularly in the case of unpremeditated murders), that the opinion of His Majesty's judges was unreliable, and that the government supporters in Parliament who had studied the matter were unanimously in favor of abolition.
		Lord Oaksey, a lord of appeal (who, as Lord Justice Lawrence, had acted as president of the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1945), was an assertive retentionist with regard to both corporal and capital punishment, for both retributive and deterrent reasons.
	historycooperative.press.uiuc.edu /journals/lhr/18.2/bailey.html (10046 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Lord Shawcross born in 1902, bought FAITH in the early 1960s.
		Lord Shawcross was the British Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials, a member of Parliament for Labour from 1945-1958 and Attorney General from 1945-1951.
		In the late 1970s Lord Shawcross sold FAITH little knowing she was soon to embark on the journey of her lifetime - a few years later she set sail from Falmouth England, for New Zealand.
	www.yachtfaith.co.nz /history-text6.htm (71 words)

	Fearsome lawyer who brought the Nazis to heel dies aged 101 - smh.com.au
		Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at the 1945 Nuremberg war crimes trials, has died at the age of 101.
		Years later, Lord Shawcross revealed that the men he had prosecuted were the sort of people you would see on the bus, except for Hess and Ribbentrop, who looked rather more miserable.
		Lord Shawcross remembered how he had to be careful not to catch the former reichsmarschall's eye when he ran into difficulties.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/11/1057783356712.html (298 words)

	[Deathwatch] Lord Hartley William Shawcross, Nuremberg prosecutor , 101
		Hartley William Shawcross was involved in a number of high-profile cases throughout his career, prosecuting a major treason trial and an atomic spying case.
		Shawcross then was appointed Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg, Germany, trials of Nazi war criminals, signing an indictment along with representatives of the United States, France and the Soviet Union.
		Shawcross called the Nazi defendants "fl-hearted murderers, plunderers and conspirators of which the world has not known their equal." "There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience," he said in court.
	slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg01062.html (653 words)

	Blog of Death: Lord Shawcross
		Lord Hartley William Shawcross of Friston, a chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials, died July 6.
		Shawcross generated a reputation for meticulous prosecution when he tried William Joyce for high treason and John George Haigh for the murder of Olive Durand-Deacon.
		Shawcross later became the Chancellor of Sussex University, and earned honorary degrees from nine universities in U.S. and the U.K. His autobiography, "Life Sentence," was published in 1995.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000114.html (161 words)

	Guardian \| William the conqueror
		Lord Hartley Shawcross came to be known as 'Sir Shortly Floorcross': after what had seemed to be a flourishing career as a socialist and potential Labour leader under Clement Attlee, he promptly crossed the divide of British politics to join the right-wing of the Conservative Party.
		Shawcross this time delegated his response to none other than John le Carré, who said he had known the Murdoch biographer for many years, and accused Brown of printing 'one of the ugliest pieces of partisan journalism that I have ever witnessed'.
		Later, Shawcross appeared to retract, writing in the Sunday Telegraph 'I regret some of my comments on Vietnam', but insisting that he was merely one of those who had relinquished his Labour vote in favour of the Social Democrats.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4711338-103573,00.html (1399 words)

	Lords Hansard text for 15 Dec 2005 (51215-08)
		The noble Lord, Lord Rodgers, is asking us to account not only for what we did as Attorneys-General but for the principle which justifies our standing in that position as Members of this House.
		Interestingly, Lord Shawcross, himself a very distinguished Attorney-General, by the late 1970s, came to ask, in the context of the Clay Cross affair and the Gouriet case, whether the role should not be removed from Members of either House and given to a public official.
		Lord Mayhew, it is an important and responsible power over which we all agonised carefully before using, but it has had a most salutary effect in striking the correct balance when imposing the right level of criminal sentence.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/51215-08.htm (2476 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Lord Shawcross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		LORD Shawcross was probably the most brilliant, flamboyant and famous lawyer of the 20th century; a deadly and clinical prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and, as the post-war Labour Attorney General, the man who helped to send acid bath murderer John George Haigh to the gallows.
		Hartley William Shawcross was born in 1902 and educated at Dulwich College, where he preached socialism in the debating society.
		And during the so-called disarmament debates at Lake Success, Shawcross exposed Molotov’s "disarmament" as humbug and was ruthless in his denunciation of the warlike activities of the Soviet Union.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=753782003 (1181 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Nazi war crimes prosecutor dies
		Lord Shawcross, the last-surviving member of Attlee's 1945 administration, was a controversial figure.
		Shawcross also went before the Hague to state Great Britain's case against Albania after the mining of the British destroyers in the Corfu Channel.
		Shawcross, who was born into a Rochdale mill-owning family, was known for dropping political bricks with regularity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/1218017.stm (547 words)

	Telegraph \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Shawcross, who also runs one of Britain's most elite hotels and is a confidant of Camilla Parker Bowles, earned the prize after a bidding war between publishers.
		Shawcross, an Old Etonian and former journalist, made his mark in 1979 with a book, Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, that was fiercely critical of American foreign policy in South-East Asia.
		Lord Shawcross was formerly Sir Hartley Shawcross, a Labour MP who switched sides to become a Right-wing Tory.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/15/nshaw15.xml (761 words)

	Lawlink NSW: Claims to the Commission (and criticisms of the law which have come to its attention):
		A further undesirable effect of high awards and costs is claimed to be the suppression of discussion of matters of importance through the intimidation of newspapers caused by the contemplation of the possibility of actions.
		Lord Porter's committee had similarly recommended in 1948 that the Court of Appeal should have power to reassess damages even if not so excessive as to justify the ordering of a new trial on present principles (Cmd.
		Lord Shawcross' committee recommended in response to similar representations about "stop writs" that an action should be dismissed on the application of the defendants if a plaintiff took no steps in it for six months and was not able to show good cause for the delay (
	www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au /lrc.nsf/pages/WP1CLAIMS (6923 words)

	Assault of the Neocon SAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Shawcross tried sincerely to paint an optimistic picture of economic life in the new Iraq.
		Shawcross should have seen for himself what is being watched on the satellite dishes before proclaiming his optimism for Iraq’s chances of recovery based on high volume sales of satellite dishes.
		Shawcross also has the honesty to admit that Iraq now possesses one of the major characteristics of other post-conflict environments like Chechnya and Kosovo — it is a criminal’s paradise.
	www.washingtondispatch.com /printer_10128.shtml (992 words)

	Lords Hansard text for 14 Dec 1998 (181214-06)
		To come to the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Beloff, on the position of the newspapers, it is important to encourage open debate on all of these subjects, and that point has been made, but that is very different from the simple assertion of facts that are incorrect.
		The noble and learned Lord the Lord Chancellor says that advocates should be chosen for their skill and not because they belong to one part of the profession.
		The message that comes out of the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, is that it is essential that all firms who have reached the franchise standard should be entitled to a contract in the area of law to which their franchise relates.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199899/ldhansrd/vo981214/text/81214-06.htm (18757 words)

	Lord Shawcross, yachtsman and lawyer dies
		Shawcross was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club and the New York Yacht Club.
		He is survived by a widow Monique, his third wife, and by the daughter and two sons from his second marriage, one of whom is the top political writer William Shawcross.
		Yachtsman Lord Shawcross, the prosecutor who brought 10 leading Nazis to the gallows after World War II at the Nuremberg trials, has died at the age of 101.
	www.pbo.co.uk /auto/newsdesk/20030611093522ymnews.html (130 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Election 2005 \| Profile: Lord Goldsmith
		The ability to master a brief capably and speedily and to use sound judgment are the essential qualifications for the job and Lord Goldsmith's years as a commercial silk certainly trained him to do that.
		Despite the intense focus on Lord Goldsmith's opinion on the legality of the Iraq war, advice to the Cabinet occupies only a fraction of his time.
		Lord Goldsmith is certainly not insulated from the political world - even if he wished he could be.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4379225.stm (490 words)

	Hartley Shawcross
		Hartley Shawcross was born in Germany on 4th February, 1902.
		Shawcross took an early interest in politics and by the age of 16 he had joined the Labour Party and was ward secretary in Wandsworth.
		During the Second World War Shawcross chaired the Enemy Aliens Tribunal (1939-41) and Deputy Regional Commissioner for the South-East (1941-42) and Commissioner for the North-West (1942-45).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWshawcross.htm (1390 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Lord Shawcross dies at 101
		Lord Shawcross, who as Sir Hartley Shawcross was the dazzling Labour barrister-politician who led the British prosecution team at the Nazi war trials in Nuremberg, died yesterday at the age of 101.
		Although he had largely dropped out of public life, Lord Shawcross's reputation lived on for two brilliant speeches he made at Nuremberg and a soundbite he did not quite make as Labour's attorney general in the reforming Attlee government of 1954-51.
		At Nuremberg, he opened and closed the British prosecution case, condemning Hitler's chief lieutenants as "fl-hearted murderers, plunderers and conspirators of which the world has not known their equal".
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,996009,00.html (236 words)

	Dulwich College - Old Alleynians in Politics, Law and Business
		Lord George is widely recognised as having been one of the most successful governors in the Bank's history, having steered an expert course through a series of turbulent events in financial markets with utmost composure, earning him the nickname 'Steady Eddie'.
		Lord George has been a governor of Dulwich College since 1998 and became Chairman of the governors in June 2003.
		Lord Shawcross was Chancellor of Sussex University from 1965 to 1989, the longest-serving chancellor in its history.
	www.dulwich.org.uk /OA_Document_1.aspx?id=1:29456&id=1:29454&id=1:29431 (2233 words)

	secretrials
		The Lord Chancellor, David Maxwell-Fyfe, was a colleague of the Chair of 'Justice', Sir Hartley Shawcross, at the Nuremberg Trials.
		Shawcross lacked a degree at all, and was not really in the top league where Maxwell-Fyfe belonged, and he probably envied him his popularity and success.
		Lord Hartley Shawcross, a Shell Oil VIP, made a Lord by the Prime Minister as a favour to a friend, was Chair of 'Justice' and, persuaded that I was a traitor (for upholding the law!) gave me a 'Kangaroo trial'
	www.libertas.demon.co.uk /secretrials.htm (9044 words)

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