The Lynskey tribunal was a British government inquiry, set up in October 1948 to investigate rumours of possible corruption in the Board of Trade. Under...
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investigating the political scandal that led to the eponymous Lynskey tribunal. Lynskey was born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, the son of solicitor George...
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John Belcher (politician) (section Lynskey tribunal)
Belcher resigned his ministerial and parliamentary offices when the Lynskey tribunal determined that he had misused his powers as a minister by granting...
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Sidney Stanley (section The tribunal)
to a great scandal and an investigation of public corruption by the Lynskey tribunal. Moreover, Stanley spied against the UK on behalf of the Irgun, a Zionist...
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his continued business dealings. In 1948 he was called before the Lynskey Tribunal, as a friend of John Belcher, but he was exonerated of any misconduct...
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Cripps. Though initially implicated in the allegations that led to the Lynskey tribunal in 1948, he was ultimately exonerated officially, but his reputation...
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List of public inquiries in the United Kingdom (section Public inquiries under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act 1921)
In the United Kingdom, the term public inquiry, also known as a tribunal of inquiry, refers to either statutory or non-statutory inquiries that have been...
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Hartley Shawcross (category Prosecutors of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg)
was recalled in 1948 to lead for the government's interest at the Lynskey tribunal. In 1951, he briefly served as President of the Board of Trade until...
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punishment were unsuccessful (see below). Ede established the Lynskey tribunal under Sir George Lynskey in 1948 to investigate allegations of corruption among...
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Dalton budget leak (1947) John Belcher corruptly influenced – led to Lynskey Tribunal British Malayan headhunting scandal (1952). Involved generals, politicians...
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