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Lord Scarman, the judge who investigated the Brixton riots of 1981, has died aged 93, his family announced yesterday. His nephew, George Ritchie, said: "He will be sadly, greatly missed." A ...

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, who is the most senior judge in England and Wales, said it was Lord Scarman's "pioneering work" which paved the way for the Human Rights Act 1998. "He was a lawyer ...

Lord Scarman, one of the country's most respected legal figures, who conducted the ground-breaking report into the 1981 Brixton riots, died yesterday at the age of 93. Although Lord Scarman had a long ...

Lord Scarman, the distinguished British lawyer who chaired the 1969 tribunal set up to investigate civil disturbances in Northern Ireland, died in Kent last night aged 93. He was best known in Britain ...

LORD Scarman, who has died aged 93, was one of the finest lawyers of the post-War era. His effortless charm won him admiration from both sides when he chaired an inquiry in the North. As a British ...

Scarman shared many of Lord Denning's fresh, down-to-earth qualities, only his were less obvious. He was, as one barrister put it, "the sort of man you might expect to see presenting arts programmes ...