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James Reid, Baron Reid

Scottish Unionist politician and judge (1890–1975)

Summary

Scottish Unionist politician and judge (1890–1975)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	The Right Honourable
name	The Lord Reid
honorific-suffix	CH PC QC
image	James Reid 1941.jpg
caption	Reid in 1941, by Walter Stoneman
office1	Lord Advocate
monarch1	George VI
term_start1	1941
term_end1	1945
predecessor1	Thomas Cooper
successor1	George Thomson
office2	Solicitor General for Scotland
term_start2	1936
term_end2	1941
predecessor2	Albert Russell
successor2	Sir David King Murray
office3	Member of Parliament
for Glasgow Hillhead
term_start3	10 June 1937
term_end3	6 October 1948
predecessor3	Sir Robert Horne
successor3	Sir Thomas Galbraith
office4	Member of Parliament
for Stirling and Falkirk
term_start4	27 October 1931
term_end4	25 October 1935
predecessor4	Hugh Murnin
successor4	Joseph Westwood
birth_date
death_date
birth_place	Drem, Scotland
death_place	London, England
spouse	Esther Brierly (m. 1933)
alma_mater	Jesus College, Cambridge
branch	British Army
unit	Royal Scots
rank	Major
battles	First World War
office	Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
termstart	1948
termend	1975

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | honorific-suffix = CH PC QC for Glasgow Hillhead for Stirling and Falkirk

James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid, (30 July 1890 – 29 March 1975) was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. His reputation is as one of the most outstanding judges of the 20th century.

Life

He was born on 30 July 1890 in Drem, East Lothian, the son of James Reid, a Solicitor of the Supreme Courts (SSC), and his wife, Kate Scott. Educated at Edinburgh Academy, he then studied law at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1910 and LLB in 1911. He was admitted as an advocate in 1914.

He was commissioned into the 8th battalion Royal Scots in World War I and was seconded to the Machine Gun Corps in 1916, serving in Mesopotamia and reaching the rank of Major. He resigned his commission in 1921. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1932.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling and Falkirk from October 1931 until his defeat in November 1935, and for Glasgow Hillhead from June 1937 until September 1948.

He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from June 1936 until June 1941, and as Lord Advocate from June 1941 until July 1945, and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1941.

From 1945 to 1948 he was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. In 1948 he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and received a Law Life Peerage as Baron Reid, of Drem in East Lothian. He sat as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary until 1975. He was one of very few people to be appointed a Law Lord straight from the Bar, without any intervening judicial experience.

Reid was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1967.

He died in London on 29 March 1975.

Family

In 1933, he married Mrs Esther Mary Brierley (née Nelson), a widow.

They did not have any children.

Cases decided

Bonnington Castings Ltd v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613, [1956] 2 WLR 707, [1956] 1 All ER 615
Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Morts Dock and Engineering Co Ltd aka (Wagon Mound (No. 1)) [1961] 1 All ER 404
Scruttons Ltd v Midland Silicones Ltd [1962] AC 446
Shaw v DPP [1962] AC 220
Ridge v Baldwin, [1964] AC 40
Rookes v. Barnard [1964] AC 1129
Beswick v Beswick [1968] AC 58
Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke, [1969] 1 AC 645
Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office [1970] AC 1004
McGhee v National Coal Board [1972] 3 All ER 1008
Knuller v. DPP [1973] A.C. 435
Norwich Pharmacal Co. v Customs and Excise Commissioners [1974] AC 133

Selected judgments

In Shaw v DPP, (1961) UKHL 1 rendered on 4 May 1961, Reid said,

In the same case, he went on to say:

References

Smith, T. B.. (2004). "Reid, James Scott Cumberland".
(July 2006). "Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002". The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
{{London Gazette. (3 July 1936)
{{London Gazette. (13 June 1941)
Knuller (Publishing, Printing and Promotions) Ltd. v. DPP [1973] A.C. 435 at 456, 56 Cr.App.R. 633 at 637

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