Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley GBE PC QC was a British jurist specialising in European and International Law, and a former judge of the European Court of Justice and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
Slynn was born onFebruary 1930 to John and Edith Slynn and educated at Sandbach School, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Grays Inn in 1956, becoming a Bencher in 1970 and Treasurer in 1988. He served as Treasury Devil or Junior Counsel to the Ministry of Labour between 196768, and as First Junior Treasury Counsel from 1968 to 1974.
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