Lord Griffiths obituary

Law lord with a wide range of public responsibilitiesHugh Griffiths, who has died aged 91, had a distinguished career in the legal profession as a barrister, a high court judge and – as Lord Justice Griffiths – a law lord and life peer. Over the years he was called upon to head various official inquiries and to serve on numerous public and legal bodies. A first-class cricketer and excellent golfer in his younger years, he also had the unique distinction of having been both president of the M