{{Short description|English legal academic and solicitor (1935–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Professor | name = Julian Farrand | birth_date = 13 August 1935 | death_date = {{Death date and age|17 July 2020|13 August 1935|df=y}} | occupation = Legal academic and solicitor | spouse = Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond (1992–2020) | children = 3 }}
'''Julian Thomas Farrand''' {{Post-nominals|country=UK|QC (Hon.)}} (13 August 1935 – 17 July 2020) was an English legal academic and solicitor who specialized in real property.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/julian-farrand-obituary-wnh65nnzb|title=Julian Farrand|via=thetimes.co.uk|access-date=9 March 2023}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/news/julian-farrand/|title=The SLS mourns the passing of Julian Farrand|accessdate=9 March 2023}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Farrand was born to J. and E.A. Farrand. He was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. From there, he went to University College London, completing the LLB in 1957 and later the LLD in 1966.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Farrand, Julian Thomas, (born 13 Aug. 1935), legal editor and writer|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-15486|access-date=2020-09-19|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u15486|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref> He was admitted as a solicitor in 1960.
== Career == He began his academic career as an assistant lecturer, then lecturer, at KCL in 1960. He followed this with lectureships at Sheffield University and Queen Mary. He became Professor of Law at the University of Manchester in 1968 and Dean of the Faculty of Law 1970–72 and 1976–78.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/2020/jul/ucl-laws-pays-tribute-julian-farrand|title=UCL Laws pays tribute to Julian Farrand|date=28 July 2020|website=UCL Faculty of Laws}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> He remained professor at Manchester until 1988. He served as Law Commissioner, leading a team on real property reform, between 1984 and 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lawcom.gov.uk/julian-farrand/|title=Julian Farrand | Law Commission|accessdate=9 March 2023}}</ref>
He was made QC (''honoris causa'') in 1994.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He was the first Insurance Ombudsman in 1989 and later Pensions Ombudsman in 1994. Until 2011, he was Chairman of the Residential Property Tribunals.<ref name=":0" />
== Personal life == He married Brenda Hale in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/18603938.Dr_Julian_Thomas_FARRAND/|title=Dr Julian Thomas FARRAND|website=Darlington and Stockton Times|accessdate=9 March 2023}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> He had one son and two daughters from a previous marriage.<ref name=":1" /> He was also a keen chess player.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.englishchess.org.uk/julian-t-farrand-rip/|title=Julian T Farrand RIP – English Chess Federation|website=englishchess.org.uk|date=30 July 2020}}</ref>
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