Hutton

Lord Brian Hutton, a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a retired Law Lord in the United Kingdom. Lord Hutton was born in Northern Ireland in 1929 and was educated at Queen's University Belfast. He was called to the Bar in 1951 and went on to have a distinguished legal career, serving as a judge in both Northern Ireland and England. Lord Hutton was best known for leading the Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the British government weapons expert Dr. David Kelly in 2003. The inquiry was held to investigate the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death, which was initially reported as a suicide, and to determine whether the government had acted improperly in any way. Lord Hutton's findings were widely reported in the media and had a significant impact on the UK political landscape at the time.