About Mervyn Davies
Lived 1918 – 2015 (aged 97). Mervyn Davies was a British judge.
Sir David Herbert Mervyn Davies, MC, TD (17 January 1918 – 12 May 2015) was a British barrister and High Court judge who sat in the Chancery Division from 1982 to 1993. He is best remembered for ordering the sequestration of assets belonging to the National Union of Mineworkers during the miners' strike of 1984–1985.
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Who was Mervyn Davies?
British judge
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Mervyn Davies was born on 17 January 1918 in Swansea.
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Mervyn Davies died on 12 May 2015.
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Mervyn Davies was a judge.
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Mervyn Davies was British.
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