1. David Napley began his articles in 1935 at age 16.
16 Facts About David Napley
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David Napley passed his final examinations with honours two years later and in 1937 immediately set up in partnership with Sidney Kingsley, establishing internationally recognised law firm Kingsley Napley.
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David Napley was instrumental in setting up JUSTICE'S Annual Tom Sargant Memorial lecture and gave the first lecture in 1989.
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David Napley worked on several suspected miscarriages of justice cases, including the one-armed bandit murder case in the early seventies and the Jock Russell case in 1982.
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David Napley took the one-armed bandit murder case to the Court of Appeal twice and finally to the House of Lords.
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David Napley played a leading part in the formation of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences, which supports research into miscarriages of justice.
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From 1963, David Napley was chairman of the Law Society's Standing Committee on Criminal Law.
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David Napley was vice-president of the Law Society of England and Wales from 1975 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 1977.
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In 1981, David Napley reacted angrily to questions in Parliament because his client, Sir Peter Hayman was not being prosecuted despite having exchanged photos of children through the post.
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On 26 March 1981 David Napley claimed that the decision not to prosecute his client was based on Attorney General Sir Michael Havers's decision to apply what David Napley termed 'a customary factor' when deciding whether to prosecute a public figure:.
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David Napley was involved in raising the profile of the barrister George Carman.
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However, in November 1973, two years after Carman became a Queen's Counsel, David Napley saw him at the Old Bailey defending a manager of Battersea Funfair.
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Carman was still based in Manchester and David Napley briefed him only occasionally during the 1970s.
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However, in June 1978 David Napley telephoned Carman to tell him that the former leader of the Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe, was probably going to be committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to murder and that he was going to retain him.
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In 1991, David Napley retained Carman to advise on a defence case for Greville Janner, later Lord Janner, if charges had been brought against him.
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David Napley died on 24 September 1994 from cancer in hospital in Slough, Berkshire, after an eight-week illness.