biography
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Mackay (of Clashfern), James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron
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pronunciation:
[muhkiy]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in the village of Scourie, Highland, N Scotland, UK. He studied mathematics and natural philosophy at Edinburgh, and later taught mathematics at St Andrews University, before switching to law. He was called to the bar in 1955, and in 1965 became a QC, specializing in tax law. In 1979 he was made Lord Advocate for Scotland, and became a life peer. As Lord Chancellor (1987–97), he created consternation among the English bar by proposing radical reforms of the legal profession. Since 1998, he has been editor-in-chief of Halsbury's Laws of England. |
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