Career

Invested to the Privy Council in 1929, he was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1929 to 1938. On 5 January 1938, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made additionally a life peer with the title Baron Romer, of New Romney in the County of Kent. All three had served in the Chancery Division of the High Court.

Re City Equitable Fire Insurance Company Ch 407

France v James Coombes & Company 2 KB 81

Cotter v National Union of Seamen 2 Ch 58

Kirby v Wilkins Ch 444

Re Thompson Ch 342

Knightsbridge Estates Trust Limited v Byrne Air Corps 613

Southern Foundries (1926) Limited v Shirlaw Air Corps 701

Nokes v Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries Limited Air Corps 1014

Re Gardner (No2) 2 Ch 230

List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases originating in Canada, 1930–1939

List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases originating in Canada, 1940–1949.