OBITUARY FOR HHJ BUZZARD
OBITUARY FOR HHJ BUZZARD
THE TIMES.
21st FEB , 1984.
His Hon. Judge Buzzard, a Circuit Judge at the Central Criminal Court since 1974 , died on January 28 at the age of 71.
He was a distinguished criminal lawyer. He was educated at Wellington and New College, Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1937. During the war he served in the RAF at Stanmore (throughout the Battle of Britain) and later in Iceland, India and Burma , reaching the rank of Wing Commander.
He returned to the Bar and in 1954 was appointed Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court. By this time he was head of his Chambers. He became a Bencher of the Inner Temple, held the Recordership of Great Yarmouth and of Dover and served on the Law Commission. In 1971 he became First Senior Treasury Counsel. In 1974 he was appointed a Circuit Judge and from then until his illness in the summer of 1983 he sat at the Central Criminal Court. Soon after his appointment he sustained serious injuries to his hand when opening a letter bomb sent to him at his home in Kent.
He was an editor of Phipson on Evidence and consultant editor of Archbold’s Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice.
He married his wife Hilary in 1946 and had two sons and daughter.
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