Jean-Pierre Warner

Jean-Pierre Frank Eugene Warner (24 September 1924 – 1 February 2005) was a jurist who served as the first British Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice after Britain's entry into the European Community in 1972. Warner was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, serving as an officer of the Rifle Brigade during the Second World War before starting his career as a barrister. Appointed Advocate-General in 1972, he returned to England in 1981, where he was made a judge of the High Court of Justice, retiring in 1994 and dying in 2005.

Biography Warner was born on 24 September 1924, to an English father, who died when he was 4, and a French mother. He was educated in France, first at Ste Croix de Neuilly and then at the École des Roches, before transferring to Harrow in 1938. After leaving Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study history before being commissioned into the Rifle Brigade as a second lieutenant on 23 October 1943. He later served on Lord Mountbatten's personal staff, becoming an acting major by the end of the Second World War at age 22. After demobilisation in 1947 he returned to Trinity College, reading law for a year and graduating with first-class honours. After returning to Britain in 1981 he became a judge of the High Court of Justice's Chancery Division on 3 March, receiving the customary knighthood on 20 May 1981. He retired in 1994. University of Exeter and University of Edinburgh. He died on 1 February 2005, aged 80.