Wilfrid Greene, 1st Baron Greene

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PC
Portrait of Lord Greene as Master of the Rolls, by Gluck
Master of the Rolls
In office
26 April 1937 – 1 June 1949
Preceded byThe Lord Wright
Succeeded byThe Lord Evershed
Personal details
Born
Wilfred Arthur Greene

30 December 1883
Beckenham, Kent
Died16 April 1952 (1952-04-17) (aged 68)
Dorking, Surrey
NationalityBritish
SpouseNancy Wright
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
ProfessionBarrister, judge

Wilfrid Arthur Greene, 1st Baron Greene,

PC (30 December 1883 – 16 April 1952) was a British lawyer and judge, noted for creating two crucial principles of administrative law, the Wednesbury doctrine and the Carltona doctrine
.

Early life, education and military service

Greene was born in

First World War between 1914 and 1918. He was decorated with the award of the MC in 1918. He was decorated with the award of Cavaliere, Order of the Crown of Italy. He was decorated with the award of Croix de Guerre. He was invested with an OBE in 1919. [1]

Legal and judicial career

Greene was a

Law Lord. On 16 July 1941, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Greene, of Holmbury St Mary in the County of Surrey.[2]
The title became extinct on his death in April 1952, aged 68.

Greene in his time was the acknowledged master of administrative law – indeed it is impossible to exaggerate his contribution to the development of this field of law. Despite some refinements, the Wednesbury doctrine of reasonableness[3] remains the benchmark by which courts review decisions of public bodies. Of even greater significance was his enunciation of the Carltona doctrine in Carltona Ltd. v. Commissioners of Public Works [1943] 2 All E.R. 560 that "the duties imposed upon Ministers and the powers given to Ministers are normally exercised under the authority of the Minister by responsible officials of the Department". It may fairly be said that the Carltona doctrine is the legal underpinning for the operation of the civil service in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

In 1941 he chaired a Board of Inquiry into pay in the

coal mines.[5]

Joldwynds

Greene acquired

modernist style, completed in 1932. He also commissioned a house to a design by the modernist Tecton Group, which was built in the grounds of Joldwynds in 1939.[6]

Honours

Cases

Notes

  1. ^ First name spelt Wilfred in some sources

References

  1. Ziegler, Philip
    , Harold Wilson Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1993 p.33
  2. ^ "No. 35225". The London Gazette. 22 July 1941. p. 4213.
  3. ^ [1948] 1 K.B. 223
  4. ^ Ziegler pp.33-4
  5. ^ Ziegler p.34
  6. ISBN 978-1-84513-532-4
    .
  7. ^ "No. 34214". The London Gazette. 29 October 1935. p. 6784.
  8. ^ "No. 34214". The London Gazette. 20 October 1935. p. 6777.
Legal offices
Preceded by Master of the Rolls
1937–1949 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation
Baron Greene

1941–1952 		Extinct
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