Background
His father was Nathan Laski (1863-1941), a Manchester cotton merchant and a leader of British Jewry. His mother, Sarah Frankenstein, had married Nathan Laski in 1889.
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Education
Manchester Grammar School
Clifton College
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Master of Arts Beit Prize, 1912.
Career
Laski came from a distinguished family. Laski was a barrister and was appointed a Queen"s Counsel (Queen's Counsel) in 1930 and a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1938. He was a Judge of Appeal of the Isle of Manitoba, 1953–1956 and Recorder of Burnley, 1935-1956.
He was a Judge of the Crown Court and Recorder of Liverpool (1956–1963).
During World War I, he served with the 6th Lancashire Fusiliers in Gallipoli, Sinai and France, retiring with the rank of Captain. Chairman, Manchester Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital President, London Committee of Deputies of British Jews, 1933–1939 Presiding Elder of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews Congregation, 1961–1967 Vice-President, Anglo-Jewish Association.
Membership
He was a member of the General Council of the Bar, 1950–1956, Chairman of its Professional Conduct Committee, 1952–1956 and its Honorary Treasurer, 1955-1956.
