Peter Gibson

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For the American writer, see Peter Gibson (writer).
The Right Honourable
Sir Peter Gibson
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Lord Justice of Appeal
In office
1993–2005
Monarch Elizabeth II
Personal details
Born (1934-06-10) 10 June 1934 (age 89)
Alma mater Worcester College, Oxford
Occupation Judge
Profession Law

The Rt Hon. Sir Peter Gibson (born 10 June 1934),[1] is a former British barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and is currently a judge of the Qatar International Court. Gibson has also served, between April 2006 and December 2010, as the UK's Intelligence Services Commissioner, and was appointed by David Cameron in July 2010 to lead the Detainee Inquiry. He is an honorary member of the Society of Legal Scholars.[2]

Education and career

Gibson was educated at Malvern College and graduated from Worcester College, Oxford.[citation needed]

He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1960, and was knighted and appointed to the High Court of Justice in 1981, serving in the Chancery Division.[citation needed] He served as a judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in 1984, and, from 1990 to 1992, as Chairman of the Law Commission for England and Wales. From 1993 until 2005, he was a Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[3] In 2006, he was made Intelligence Services Commissioner, with his first term expiring in 2009.[4] On 1 April 2009, he was granted a second term,[5] though Gibson stepped down early, at the end of 2010, in order to chair an inquiry into the UK's alleged role in the torture and other ill-treatment of persons detained during the highly controversial War on Terror.[6] He was succeeded, on 1 January 2011, as ISC by Mark Waller.[7]

Gibson is currently a judge of the Qatar International Court.[3]

Detainee Inquiry

On 6 July 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Gibson to head the Detainee Inquiry, which would look into allegations that the UK intelligence services were complicit in the torture of detainees, including those from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp or subject to rendition flights.[8][9] Troubled from the outset[10]—Gibson's appointment was questioned by the director of Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith, almost as soon as it was announced,[11] and human and civil rights and other advocacy groups slammed the inquiry for its lack of independence, impartiality, openness, and its failure to meet the UK's stringent obligations under domestic and international law to comprehensively investigate claims of torture (some groups had such grave misgivings that they threatened to boycott it)[12]—the Detainee Inquiry was eventually scrapped after it reportedly fell into conflict with police investigations.[13]

After a much-criticised delay,[14][15] the interim report of the Inquiry was finally published on 19 December 2013. It concluded that the British intelligence services had been complicit in extraordinary rendition.[16] It was announced that further investigations would be undertaken by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee.[17]

References

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  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. "The Prime Minister (Mr David Cameron): While there is no evidence that any British officer was directly engaged in torture in the aftermath of 9/11, there are questions over the degree to which British officers were working with foreign security services who were treating detainees in ways they should not have done. […] So we will have a single, authoritative examination of all these issues. […] It will look at whether Britain was implicated in the improper treatment of detainees, held by other countries, that may have occurred in the aftermath of 9/11. […] I have asked the right hon. Sir Peter Gibson […] to lead the inquiry." The other members of the three-member inquiry team were Janet Paraskeva and Peter Riddell.
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