Lionel Cohen, Baron Cohen
Lionel Leonard Cohen, Baron Cohen, PC (1 March 1888 – 9 May 1973), was a British barrister and judge.[1]
The Lord Cohen | |
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 Mr Justice Cohen in 1944 by Walter Stoneman | |
| Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
| In office 1951–1960 | |
| Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
| In office 1946–1951 | |
| Justice of the High Court | |
| In office 1943–1946 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Christopher Farwell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lionel Leonard Cohen London |
| Children | 3 |
Early life and career
Cohen was born in London, the only child of Sir Leonard Lionel Cohen, KCVO, a banker, and of Eliza Henrietta Cohen, née Schloss. His paternal grandfather was the financier and MP Lionel Louis Cohen. He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, where he took Firsts in History and Law. He was called to the bar in 1913 by the Inner Temple, but later joined Lincoln's Inn. During World War I, he served with the 1/13th London Regiment (1st Kensingtons Battalion), London Regiment, and was wounded in France.
After the war, Cohen returned to the bar, mainly practising company law. He was made a King's Counsel in 1929. During World War II, Cohen served with the Ministry of Economic Warfare from 1939 to 1943.
Judicial career
Cohen was appointed to the High Court in 1943 and assigned to the Chancery Division, receiving the customary knighthood. In 1946, he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal and invested to the Privy Council. On 12 November 1951, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and made additionally a life peer with the title Baron Cohen, of Walmer in the County of Kent.[2] In 1960, he retired as Lord of Appeal.
Cohen chaired many Royal Commissions in the years following World War II, particularly the Report of the Committee on Company Law Amendment in 1945 and on compensation.[3] From 1946 to 1956 he chaired the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, which acknowledged scientists who had made technological advances such as radar and the jet engine during the war. He also headed the Cohen Inquiry into the loss of de Havilland Comet airliners Yoke Peter and Yoke Yoke in 1954.
Personal life
In 1918 Cohen married Adelaide Spielmann (1895-1961), daughter of Sir Isidore Spielmann;[4] they had two sons and one daughter. His son, Leonard Harold Lionel (known to all as Tim) Cohen OBE practised as a chancery barrister before joining his brother-in-law's merchant bank, M Samuel (later Hill Samuel), where he was a director. Tim's son, Sir Jonathan Cohen, was a High Court judge.
Cases
- Canada (Attorney General) v Hallet & Carey Ltd [1952] AC 427 (JCPC)
- Candler v Crane, Christmas & Co [1951] 2 KB 164
- Boardman v Phipps [1966] UKHL 2
Arms
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See also
References
- William D. Rubinstein (22 February 2011). The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 169–. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- "No. 39382". The London Gazette. 13 November 1951. p. 5919.
- D R Thorpe (9 September 2010). Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan. Random House. pp. 756–. ISBN 978-1-4090-5932-5. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- "Adelaide (née Spielmann), Baroness Cohen". National Portrait Gallery.
- "Cohen, Baron (Law Lord) (UK, 1951 - 1973)". Cracroft's Peerage.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
- Richard Wilberforce, revised (23 September 2004). "Cohen, Lionel Leonard, Baron Cohen (1888–1973)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30950. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)