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Ewan George Francis Stewart, Lord Stewart MC(9 May 1923 – 31 March 1987) was a Scottish lawyer and judge.

Stewart was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh, and then at the University of Edinburgh

Royal Scots in WWII, Military Cross

adv 1949

stand couns to Ministry of Civil Aviation in Scotland 1955

hon sheriff Lothia and Peebles 1961

1962-65 New Zealand bar {herald}}

1965 advocate depute -- prosecuted murder trials, including Biggar murder and Garvie

1965 - police advisory board for Scotland

  • 1967 - sol-gen

3 events while sol-gen:

1970 eln - Lac Edinb Pentlands, failed

1971-75 Scottish Law Commission full-time

1971-7 Committee on criminal Procedure in Scotland

1973-75 Committee on the preapartion of legislation[1]

75 -- Senator of the College of Justice -- oath admin by Lord Emslie

76-82 chair of the Court of Stirling University

1977 -- committee on alternatives to prosecution

30 Sept 1986 - retired as judge, succeeded by Lord Prosser

died 31 March in Murrayfield hosp in Edinb aged 63

-- --- tributes

Len Murray QC -- one of the sharper forensic brains of his time

References

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Legal offices
Preceded by Solicitor General for Scotland
1967–1970
Succeeded by


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