12 Facts About Edward Nugee

Edward Nugee was involved in number of significant cases on tax and pensions, as well as being a regularly published correspondent in letters to the editor of The Times.

Edward Nugee attended Brambletye School in East Grinstead and Radley College in Oxfordshire, from where he won a scholarship to Worcester College, Oxford, to read Classics.

Edward Nugee graduated with a double first, and in 1953 was awarded the Eldon Law Scholarship.

Edward Nugee was called to the bar in 1955 at the Inner Temple and became a pupil at 2 New Square in Lincoln's Inn, but soon thereafter moved to chambers at 3 New Square, later known as Wilberforce Chambers.

Edward Nugee remained there in practice for nearly 60 years until his death, principally in the areas of pensions and tax, and was head of chambers for over 30 years.

Edward Nugee was Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1996.

In 1962, Edward Nugee was asked to join the legal team advising the Colonial Office on administrative issues in Uganda, then a British protectorate and soon to become independent.

Edward Nugee's role was to advise on the boundaries of traditional areas and tribal domains; he took great pleasure in researching the pre-colonial administration of the Baganda people, taking evidence from elders who could personally remember the period before the British arrived in 1898, and was instrumental in advising the Colonial Office to restore to the Baganda people authority over some of their traditional territory.

In 1967 Edward Nugee was made a Junior Counsel for the Land Commission.

Edward Nugee served on the Council of Legal Education from 1967 to 1990, and assisted the Law Commission.

In 1955, Edward Nugee met and married Rachel Elizabeth Makower, who had worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.

Edward Nugee served as a Church Commissioner between 1990 and 2001 and on the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod dealing with issues of ecclesiastical law.