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24: 306:. The sketch was written and delivered shortly after the trial and was, according to Freeman and Penrose, "actually not that different from the original." The nine-minute opus, "Entirely a Matter for You", is considered to be one of the finest works of Cook's career. Cook and show producer 121: 318:
of the live performance together with three studio tracks that further lampooned the Thorpe trial. Notwithstanding marked and widespread public disquiet at the biased summing-up in the Thorpe trial, Cantley was considered as Presiding Judge on the
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on 3 May 1979 - so much so that no press agency could find a photograph of him. Thorpe was acquitted, and Cantley's summing up roundly condemned the prosecution witnesses and praised the defendants, while claiming not to express an opinion.
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Cantley married Hilda Goodwin Gerrard (née Jones) in 1966, widow of his former pupil-master, Albert Denis Gerrard. He retired from the bench in 1985. In later life, he lived with his wife in the Temple and attended the
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Cantley died in London on 6 January 1993 following several years of ill health, aged 82. His wife Hilda died on 11 September 1995, aged 95.
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He was Presiding Judge on the Northern Circuit from 1970 to 1974. He had a low public profile until he presided at the
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One of his last trials was leading for the prosecution when Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen were convicted for the
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and then on staff appointments, spending time in North Africa and Italy. He was appointed an Officer of the
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from 1962 to 1965. He was appointed as a High Court judge in 1965, allocated to the
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He returned to the bar after the war. He had a mixed practice, specialising in
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in 1964, which led to the last two judicial executions in Britain before the
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at Middle Temple in 1963. He served as Treasurer at Middle Temple in 1981.
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examination, gaining first-class honours and the Certificate of Honour.
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He became a barrister in Manchester, with a pupillage under
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Cantley was born in Manchester, where his father was a
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