Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway

Alan Robertson Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway QC (born 24 May 1917) is a British judge, barrister and author.

The son of John Kenneth Campbell and Juliet Pinner was educated at Aldenham School, Hertfordshire and Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris in 1934. He was further educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics and law in 1938, and with a Master of Arts. From 1939 to 1940, Campbell served in the Royal Artillery Supplementary Reserve, British Expeditionary Force, reaching the rank of Second Lieutenant, and was a Prisoner of War in Colditz from 1940 to 1945.
Called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1939, he was made a Queen's Counsel in 1965 and a Bencher in 1972. In 1975, Campbell became a member of the Management Committee of the United Kingdom Association for European Law, and in 1976 he was appointed Recorder of the Crown Court, holding both posts until 1989. From 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the Law Advisory Panel of British Council, from 1998 to 1991 he was Vice-President of the Association des Juristes Franco-Britanniques and from 1978 to 2004 President of the Colditz Association. On 2 June 1981, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Campbell of Alloway, of Ayr in the District of Kyle and Carrick and received the Emergency Reserve Decoration (ERD) in 1996. He is further a member of the Scottish Peers' Association.

In 1947, Campbell married Diana Watson-Smyth. Divorced in 1953, he married secondly Vivien de Kantzow in 1957. He has one daughter by his first wife.

Works

*"Restrictive Trade Practices and Monopolies" (1956)
*"Restrictive Trading Agreements in the Common Market" (1964)
*"Industrial Relations Act" (1971)
*"EC Competitions Law" (1980)
*"Trade Unions and the Individual" (1980)

References

*cite web | url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26638| title= DodOnline| accessdate= 2006-12-07
*cite web | url= http://www.thepeerage.com/p19110.htm#i191095| title= thePeerage| accessdate= 2006-12-07


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