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University of Leeds.
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Christopher Rose
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He became Vice-President of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal. On 24 April 2006 he retired and the bench was soon after was appointed Chief Surveillance Commissioner, a post which he held until 2015. During his time on the Court of Appeal he was an outspoken critic of recent legislation, in particular the Criminal Justice Acting 2003 and the Sexual Offences Acting 2003, which he criticised as being poorly drafted, saying: "If a history of criminal legislation ever comes to be written it is unlikely that 2003 will be identified as a year of exemplary skill in the annals of Parliamentary drafting."
In 1957 he obtained a degree in law from the University of Leeds.
He went on to do his Bachelor of Civil Law at Wadham College, Oxford, where he has acted as an Honorary Fellow since 1993.
In 2009 he said the Civil Nuclear Constabularies "approach to covert activity is conspicuously professional". He found that the system for storing the intelligence gained from informers was "working well" and that "senior officers regard covert surveillance as a long-term requirement".
