Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart PC (7 January 1870 – 5 May 1943) was a politician and Judge in the United Kingdom. Born in Bury, Lancashire, he was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1913 and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1918, Attorney General from January 10, 1919 to March 6, 1922. He entered the cabinet in 1921, and was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from March 8, 1922 to October 12, 1940.

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  • Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart PC (7 January 1870 – 5 May 1943) was a politician and Judge in the United Kingdom. Born in Bury, Lancashire, he was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1913 and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1918, Attorney General from January 10, 1919 to March 6, 1922. He entered the cabinet in 1921, and was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from March 8, 1922 to October 12, 1940. He was given a peerage as Baron Hewart in 1922 to allow him to sit in the House of Lords as Lord Chief Justice. Upon his retirement he was created Viscount Hewart. In 1929 Hewart published The New Despotism, in which he claimed that the rule of law in Britain was being undermined by the legislature. This book was very controversial and led to the appointment of a Committee on Ministers' Powers—chaired by the Earl of Donoughmore—but its Report rejected Hewart's arguments. Lord Hewart has been described as "one of the most vigorous and vociferous believers in the impeccability of the English jury system of this or any other century" However, in 1931, Hewart made legal history, when he quashed the conviction for murder of William Herbert Wallace, on the grounds that the conviction was not supported by the weight of the evidence. In other words - the jury was wrong. Lord Hewart was the originator (paraphrased) of the aphorism "Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done." He died in Barnet aged 73. (en)
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  • Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart PC (7 January 1870 – 5 May 1943) was a politician and Judge in the United Kingdom. Born in Bury, Lancashire, he was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1913 and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1918, Attorney General from January 10, 1919 to March 6, 1922. He entered the cabinet in 1921, and was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from March 8, 1922 to October 12, 1940. (en)
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  • Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart (en)
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