SIR HENRY SLESSER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20743, 14 June 1929, Page 9

SIR HENRY SLESSER

A NEW APPOINTMENT. LORD JUSTICE OF APPEAL. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, June 12. It is officially announced that the King has appointed Sir Henry Slesser, K.C., to be a Lord Justice of Appeal in the place of Sir John Sankey, who is now Lord Chancellor in the new Labour Government.

Sir Henry Slesser was Solicitor-Gene-ral in the Labour Government of 1924. His appointment to a judgeship creates a parliamentary vacancy in South-east Leeds, where at' the general election he defeated the Conservative candidate by a majority of 15,000 votes.

Sir Henry Slesser was called to the Bar in 1906, specialising in trades union law. He was a very able advocate, and as a junior enjoyed an extensive practice, largely in cases concerning trades unions and the law appertaining to them. His learning in these matters secured him an appointment as standing counsel to the Labour Party,, and he appears on several occasions in cases relating to politics. He has been lecturer in law at the University of London and Ruskin College, Oxford. A Jew by birth, he is said to be a Christian by conviction. He claims descent from a long line of musicians and painters. Prominent in the movement known as Anglo-Catholicism, he has explained that he sees the Church as a divine body, entitled to use, in its mission of bringing in the Kingdom of God on earth, all the beauty of ritual.