Francis Jacobs

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Advocate General at the European Court of Justice
In office
1988–2006
Preceded byThe Lord Slynn of Hadley
Succeeded byEleanor Sharpston
Personal details
Born
Francis Geoffrey Jacobs

(1939-06-08) 8 June 1939 (age 84)
NationalityBritish
Children5
Alma materNuffield College, Oxford
OccupationJudge
ProfessionBarrister

Sir Francis Geoffrey Jacobs

Privy Councillor
in December 2005.

On 4 December 2007, Jacobs was elected President of Missing Children Europe, the European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children.[3]

He was President of the European Law Institute from 2011 to 2013.

He married in 1975 (as his second wife) Susan Cox, granddaughter of Michael Gordon Clark; they have three daughters and one son. He has one son by an earlier marriage.

See also

List of cases

Case C-251/95 Sabel BV v Puma AG, Rudolf Dassler Sport

Notes

  1. ^ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 8 June 2011. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2014. Sir Francis Jacobs, an Advocate General, Court of Justice of the EC, 1988–2006, 72
  2. ^ "The Gazette" (PDF). John Carpenter Club. 292. Spring 2008.
  3. ^ Missing Children Europe: European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children

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