Lord Carswell obituary

Barrister and judge who served as lord chief justice of Northern IrelandThe day before Robert Carswell was sworn in as a high court judge in 1984, he spotted a Provisional IRA booby-trap bomb attached to the underside of his car. The eventual lord chief justice of Northern Ireland and law lord, who has died aged 88, alerted the security forces, but an attempt to defuse the device was only partially successful.“There was an immense amount of damage done to my car – which was a write-o