Retirement and Death
He retired in 2000, after suffering a stroke, although he continued to sit occasionally on the Court of Appeal. He was a member of the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission from 2001. He died in Rochester, Kent. He was survived by his partner for 38 years, Peter Wright.
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