actor (stage, films, television)
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barrister; television and radio presenter and writer
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CBE 2010; FRSL
poet, novelist, playwright, song-lyricist, screen-writer and broadcaster; Poet Laureate, since 2019; Professor of Poetry, University of Leeds, since 2017
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peace activist and socialist; on staff of Amnesty International, 1971–94, retired
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CBE 2009; PhD, DCL; FBA 1993
Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1997–2013, now Emeritus; Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1997–2013, now Emeritus
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CBE 2007 (OBE 1991)
Principal Lecturer in Business Studies, Huddersfield Technical College, 1973–90; Lord Mayor, City of Leeds, 2000–01
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Director, David Aukin Productions Ltd, since 2003; Consultant, Daybreak Pictures Ltd, since 2016 (Chief Executive Officer, 2006–16)
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QC 1973; QC (Hong Kong) 1983; Chairman, The New Law Publishing Co. plc, 1993; Editor-in-Chief, New Property Cases, 1986
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Kt 1996
a Judge of the Court of Appeal, Jersey, 1994–2011, and Guernsey, 1996–2011; Senator, States of Jersey, 2011–18; Minister for External Relations, 2013–18
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MA
QC 1981; barrister, arbitrator and writer; President, Trinity College, University of Oxford, 1996–2006
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QC 1991; a Recorder of the Crown Court, 1988–2016; a Deputy High Court Judge, 1992–2016; writer
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PC 1999; British High Commissioner in South Africa, 2005–09; barrister-at-law; Chairman and Founder, Akyem Law and Advisory Ltd, since 2010
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OBE 2010
Chairman, Uzbek British Trade and Industry Council, UK Trade & Investment (formerly British Trade International), 1999–2012
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Master of the Senior (formerly Supreme) Court, Chancery Division, 1997–2014; Acting Chief Chancery Master, 2013–14
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lawyer, writer and politician; Governor of California, 2011–19
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Kt 1994; CVO 1995; PC 2002
a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, since 2012
