Sir Norman Richards obituary
obituary
JUDGE SIR NORMAN RICHARDS
His Honour Judge Sir Norman Richards, QC, who had been a circuit judge since 1963, died on December 29, his seventy-second birthday. Sir Norman Richards was noted for the strong line he took on reducing the cost of litigation where this could be done, and for his dislike of the law’s delays.
Educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1928 and practised on the Wales and Chester Circuit. In the Second World War he was twice mentioned in despatches and received .the award of OBE. He became an Official Recorder of the Supreme Court, Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil 1960-63, Deputy Chairman of Middlesex Quarter Sessions 1962-65, and, after ten years as circuit judge, became president of HM Council of Circuit Judges in 1973. He was knighted in the 1977 Birthday Honours.
He married in 1930 Helen Nina Colls who, with their daughter, survives him.
The cited information was sourced from Electronic Document (email, file) published in London on December 31st, 1977 <https://archive.org/stream/NewsUK1977UKEnglish/Dec%2031%201977%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2360199%2C%20UK%20%28en%29_djvu.txt> The author/originator was The Times. This citation is considered to be direct and primary evidence used, or by dominance of the evidence.His Honour Judge Sir Norman Richards, QC, who had been a circuit judge since 1963, died on December 29, his seventy-second birthday. Sir Norman Richards was noted for the strong line he took on reducing the cost of litigation where this could be done, and for his dislike of the law’s delays.
Educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1928 and practised on the Wales and Chester Circuit. In the Second World War he was twice mentioned in despatches and received .the award of OBE. He became an Official Recorder of the Supreme Court, Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil 1960-63, Deputy Chairman of Middlesex Quarter Sessions 1962-65, and, after ten years as circuit judge, became president of HM Council of Circuit Judges in 1973. He was knighted in the 1977 Birthday Honours.
He married in 1930 Helen Nina Colls who, with their daughter, survives him.
- Source Notes
- The Times, 31 Dec. 1977
- Source/Citation References (4)
- Family: Sir Norman Grantham Lewis Richards QC & Lady Helen Nina Colls
- Individual: Sir Norman Grantham Lewis Richards QC
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- Marriage / Union: Sir Norman Grantham Lewis Richards QC & Lady Helen Nina Colls