Who is Sir Peter North?
Sir Peter North, CBE, QC, studied law at Oxford University and then spent 15 years teaching law mainly in Oxford. In 1976 he took up office as one of the 5 Law Commissioners in England, the Law Commission being responsible for making a wide range of proposals for law reform. His particular areas of activity were private international law, contract, tort, and a range of negotiations within the EEC on behalf of the United Kingdom Government. He then returned to the academic world, and from 1984 to 2005, he was the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford and for 4 years (the then maximum permitted period) in the mid-nineties he was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. At the same time, he provided advice to the United Kingdom Government on a range of topics, most notably chairing enquiries into the whole area of road traffic law and its policing, and the difficult problems of parades and marches in Northern Ireland. In addition he chaired a major Commission of Inquiry into the whole working o
