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Sir Robert Edgar Megarry FBA PC (1 June 1910 – 11 October 2006) was a British lawyer and judge. Originally a solicitor, he requalified as a barrister and also pursued a parallel career as a legal academic. He later became a High Court judge and served as Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division from 1976 to 1981. Afterwards he served as Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court from 1982 to 1985. ==Early and private life== Megarry's father was a solicitor in Belfast; his mother's father was a Major General. Megarry was born in Croydon, Surrey and was educated at Lancing and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He did not concentrate on his academic studies at university, writing for student newspaper ''Varsity'' as its first music critic, played football and tennis for his college, and obtained a pilot's licence; he ended up with a third class degree. He married his wife, Iris, in 1936, and they had three daughters. His wife died in 2001, but he was survived by his daughters. Having trained as a solicitor, he practised as one from 1935 to 1941. He also taught law students, and lectured at Cambridge from 1939 to 1940. He worked at the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War, rising to Assistant Secretary by 1946. With encouragement from Arthur Goodhart, Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, he retrained as a barrister, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1944, and left the civil service to practise as a barrister in 1946, specialising in equity and land law. In parallel to his legal career, he also taught law at Cambridge University, becoming a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1945, and rising to become a university Reader by 1967. He was elected as a member of the Bar Council in 1948. He became a QC in 1956, was a bencher at Lincoln's Inn in 1962, and was Treasurer in 1981. He was prosecuted at the Old Bailey for submitting false income tax returns in 1954. The prosecuting counsel was Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, the Solicitor General and later Speaker of the House of Commons; counsel for the defence was Frederick Lawton, later a senior judge. Megarry's tax affairs were complex, with his earnings as a lecturer dealt with by his wife and his self-employed income from his legal practice dealt with by his clerk. Each assumed that the other was dealing with certain items of income, but in fact neither did, so it was omitted from Megarry's tax returns. The judge directed the jury to acquit Megarry, on the grounds that the error was a genuine mistake with no intention to defraud the tax authorities. Megarry was also an accomplished legal writer, publishing several leading textbooks. He is perhaps best known as joint author of ''The Law of Real Property'' with William Wade, first published in 1957 and usually known as ''Megarry and Wade''. A 6th edition, edited by Charles Harpum, was published in 1999. Megarry also wrote a handbook to the Rent Acts in 1939, which ran to 11 editions by 1988. His ''Lectures on the Town and Country Act 1947'' was published in 1949, shortly after the new town planning legislation was passed, and he also published ''A Manual of the Law of Real Property'' (1946), which ran to 8 editions. He was the sole editor of the 23rd edition of ''Snell's Equity'' (1947); he then edited the 24th edition (1954) to the 27th edition (1973) jointly with Paul Vivian Baker. His works broke new ground, in presenting technical areas of the law in a clear and systematic way, to the benefit of generations of law students. His love of the minutiae of legal practice led him to publish several legal miscellanies, including ''Miscellany-at-law'' (1955), ''Arabinesque-at-law'' (1969), ''Inns Ancient and Modern'' (1972), ''A Second Miscellany-at-Law'' (1973) and ''A New Miscellany-At-Law'' (2005). He was also a book review and assistant editor of the ''Law Quarterly Review'' from 1944 to 1967, and a consultant for the BBC's radio programme ''Law in Action'' from 1953 to 1966. He also published ''An Introduction to Lincoln's Inn'' in 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Megarry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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