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- Sir Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson (17 October 1902 – 26 December 1987), usually known as Sir Melford Stevenson, was an English barrister and, later, a High Court judge, whose judicial career was marked by his controversial conduct and outspoken views. After establishing a legal career in the field of insolvency, Stevenson served during the Second World War as a Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces. He was subsequently Judge Advocate at the 1945 war crimes trial of former personnel of the German submarine U-852 for their actions in what became known as the Peleus affair. In 1954 Stevenson represented the government of British Kenya during Jomo Kenyatta's unsuccessful appeal against his conviction for membership of the rebel organisation Mau Mau. Later that year he represented the litigants in the Crichel Down affair, which led to changes in the law on compulsory purchase. In 1955 he defended Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed for murder in the United Kingdom. He was deeply distressed by the execution of Ellis, for whom there had been no defence in law, but whom Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George was expected to reprieve. Two years later, Stevenson took part in the unsuccessful prosecution of John Bodkin Adams for the murder of Edith Alice Morrell. Stevenson became a High Court judge in 1957, and acquired a reputation for severity in sentencing. He sentenced the Kray twins to life imprisonment in 1969, with a recommendation that they serve not less than 30 years each. In 1970 Stevenson passed long sentences on eight Cambridge University students who took part in the Garden House riot, and the following year gave Jake Prescott of the Angry Brigade 15 years for conspiracy to cause explosions. One of his fellow judges, Sir Robin Dunn, described him as "the worst judge since the war". After Dunn's attack, several high-profile legal figures came to Stevenson's defence, among them fellow judge and biographer Lord Roskill, who pointed out that Stevenson could be merciful to those he regarded as victims. Lord Devlin described Stevenson as the "last of the grand eccentrics". Mr Justice Stevenson retired from the bench in 1979 aged 76, and died at St Leonards in East Sussex on 26 December 1987. (en)
- 奧布里·梅爾福德·斯蒂德·史蒂文森爵士（英語：Sir Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson，1902年10月17日－1987年12月26日），英國大律師和法官，1957年至1979年擔任高等法院法官。 史蒂文森由1925年起成為執業大律師，戰前主要從事破產訴訟。二戰期間他在陸軍軍法署任職，任內曾主審納粹德軍U型潛艇擊沉希臘商船事件。他在戰後參與過多宗備受矚目的刑事案件，當中包括在1954年代表英政府反駁肯雅黑人政治領袖喬莫·肯雅塔的上訴申請、1955年為女殺人犯魯思·埃利斯擔任辯護律師、以及在1957年博德金·亞當斯醫生涉嫌連環謀殺案中代表控方等。 加入高等法院後，史蒂文森因其直率的言行和判處重刑的習慣而引起爭議。1969年，他向倫敦黑幫頭目克賴兄弟兩人各判處終身監禁，同時規定兩人必須服刑最少30年；翌年，他又向八名參與的劍橋大學學生判處監禁或送入，其中更有學生被判監長達18個月，引來判刑過重的批評。法律界內更有戲言如果被告人遭史蒂文森裁定罪名成立，就直接把案件提出上訴。 外界對史蒂文森的毀譽不一，當他在1979年以76歲之齡從高等法院退休時，有輿論猜測他是被迫退休，理由是據說他不受個別傳媒和派別的歡迎。退休以後，他仍時常出席公開場合，直到晚年健康和視力倒退才逐漸淡出。 (zh)
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- Bathurst [[[Christopher Hiley Ludlow Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe|Viscount Bledisloe]]] used to recount the story of Stevenson trying a manslaughter case in which a man who had run over a child pleaded, in extenuation, that he had thought the child was a dog; the judge, a great spaniel lover, promptly gave him the maximum sentence. (en)
- ... without knowing what bodies, political or other, Melford belonged to, it would be safe to say that he was on the right wing of all of them. (en)
- I must confess I cannot tell whether you are innocent or guilty. I am giving you three years. If you are guilty you have got off lightly, if innocent let this be a lesson to you. (en)
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- 奧布里·梅爾福德·斯蒂德·史蒂文森爵士（英語：Sir Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson，1902年10月17日－1987年12月26日），英國大律師和法官，1957年至1979年擔任高等法院法官。 史蒂文森由1925年起成為執業大律師，戰前主要從事破產訴訟。二戰期間他在陸軍軍法署任職，任內曾主審納粹德軍U型潛艇擊沉希臘商船事件。他在戰後參與過多宗備受矚目的刑事案件，當中包括在1954年代表英政府反駁肯雅黑人政治領袖喬莫·肯雅塔的上訴申請、1955年為女殺人犯魯思·埃利斯擔任辯護律師、以及在1957年博德金·亞當斯醫生涉嫌連環謀殺案中代表控方等。 加入高等法院後，史蒂文森因其直率的言行和判處重刑的習慣而引起爭議。1969年，他向倫敦黑幫頭目克賴兄弟兩人各判處終身監禁，同時規定兩人必須服刑最少30年；翌年，他又向八名參與的劍橋大學學生判處監禁或送入，其中更有學生被判監長達18個月，引來判刑過重的批評。法律界內更有戲言如果被告人遭史蒂文森裁定罪名成立，就直接把案件提出上訴。 外界對史蒂文森的毀譽不一，當他在1979年以76歲之齡從高等法院退休時，有輿論猜測他是被迫退休，理由是據說他不受個別傳媒和派別的歡迎。退休以後，他仍時常出席公開場合，直到晚年健康和視力倒退才逐漸淡出。 (zh)
- Sir Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson (17 October 1902 – 26 December 1987), usually known as Sir Melford Stevenson, was an English barrister and, later, a High Court judge, whose judicial career was marked by his controversial conduct and outspoken views. (en)
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