New appointments as Lord Chancellor, Attorney General as well as Solicitor-General. Also changes to taxes in the 1969 Budget statement.

The Law Society’s Gazette, 16 May 1979

The Lord Chancellor and the Law OfficersLord Hailsham of St Marylebone QC (pictured), who was Lord Chancellor from 1970-74, has been reappointed to that high office in the new Conservative administration. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, Lord Hailsham was called to the Bar in 1932 and was elected a Bencher at Lincoln’s Inn in 1956. He was first elected to Parliament for Oxford City in 1938.

Rt Hon Sir Michael Havers QC has been appointed Attorney General. Educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Sir Michael was called to the Bar in 1948.

Sir Ian Percival QC, MP, who has been Member of Parliament for Southport since 1959, has been appointed Solicitor-General. Mr Percival was educated at Latymer Upper School and St Catherine’s College Cambridge and was called to the Bar in 1948.

The Law Society’s Gazette, May 1969The Budget statement on 15 April contained some long-expected anti-avoidance measures, some alleviating and rationalising provisions and a number of gloomy imposts. Solicitors who act for small businesses and family companies will doubtless already be faced with anxious clients concerned at the prospect of taxes on advertising revenue, betting shops and gaming machines, wines and petrol, potato crisps and peanuts and the increased rate of corporation tax. It will be little consolation to answer that the solicitor himself is amongst the hardest-hit.