Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock

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William John Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock (8 December 1907–14 October 1985) was an English judge and Law Lord.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Contributions to Legal Thought 4 Famous judgments 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Born the son of a Croydon solicitor, he attended Whitgift School and University College, Oxford, where he was later to become an Honorary Fellow.

[edit] Career

He became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1968 and was elevated as a life peer with the title Baron Diplock, of Wansford in the County of Huntingdonshire to the House of Lords.

As Lord Diplock, he chaired a commission set up in 1972 to consider legal measures against terrorism in Northern Ireland, which led to the establishment of the juryless Diplock courts with which his name is now associated.

[edit] Contributions to Legal Thought

He made many contributions to legal thought and pushed the law in new and unique directions.

The current typology of grounds for judicial review is due to Lord Diplock.

• Procedural impropriety
• Nemo judex (Bias rule)
• Audi alteram partem (Hearing rule)
• Illegality
• Ultra vires
• Simple ultra vires
• Extended ultra vires
• Procedural ultra vires
• Fettering
• Irrationality
• Wednesbury irrationality
• Lack of proportionality

[edit] Famous judgments

• Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374

• Whitehouse v Lemon; Whitehouse v Gay News Ltd [1979] 2 WLR 281

• O'Reilly v Mackman [1983] 2 AC 237

[edit] See also

Judicial Review in English Law

[edit] External links

• Report of the Commission to Consider Legal Procedures to deal with Terrorist Activities in Northern Ireland