Sir Oliver Bury Popplewell was born on 15 August 1927 and is a British former judge and cricket player.
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14 Facts About Oliver Popplewell
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Oliver Popplewell is the father of four sons, the eldest of whom is the former Cambridge University and Somerset cricketer and now solicitor, Nigel Popplewell, and another of whom, Andrew Popplewell, is a Lord Justice of Appeal.
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Oliver Popplewell is the grandfather of Anna Popplewell and Lulu Popplewell.
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In 2003, Oliver Popplewell became one of the oldest mature students at the University of Oxford when he started reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Harris Manchester College.
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Oliver Popplewell was a right-handed wicket-keeper-batsman, playing 56 innings in 41 matches, scoring 881 runs for an average of 20.
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Oliver Popplewell was a High Court judge from 1983 until 2003.
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Oliver Popplewell was a judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, vice-chairman of the Parole Board, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
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Oliver Popplewell presided over the libel case brought by Jonathan Aitken against The Guardian and Granada Television.
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Oliver Popplewell upheld Reynolds Defence, established in the House of Lords in Reynolds v Times Newspapers Ltd in 1999, in an action against the Yorkshire Post for reporting that a local karate company was selling "rip-off" lessons.
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Oliver Popplewell had an argument with Home Secretary David Blunkett who was seeking to introduce mandatory minimum sentences for some serious crimes.
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Oliver Popplewell made the comments in a letter to The Times following the Commons debate on 17 October 2011 calling for all Cabinet papers on Hillsborough to be released.
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Oliver Popplewell's letter was published by the Times sister paper, The Sun, which is boycotted on Merseyside, the day after it was revealed to Parliament that senior policemen had changed the evidence of junior policemen whose evidence contradicted the official version given to the press by police spokesmen.
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Oliver Popplewell was widely criticised for his comments, including a rebuke from a survivor of the Bradford stadium disaster.
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Oliver Popplewell had earlier said that he remained convinced that the fire was "undoubtedly" started by accident by a discarded match or cigarette, despite the new evidence.
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