Thomas Haycraft
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Sir Thomas Haycraft was the Chief Justice of Palestine from 1921 to 1927. He served as the head of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry
which looked into the causes of the Arab rioting in Palestine in that year.
Haycraft was a barrister
and had worked for the British Colonial Service before coming to Palestine.
Haycraft Commission of Inquiry
The Haycraft Commission of Inquiry was set up to investigate the Jaffa riots of 1921, but its remit was widened and its report entitled "Palestine: Disturbances in May 1921"...
which looked into the causes of the Arab rioting in Palestine in that year.
Haycraft was a barrister
Barrister
A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...
and had worked for the British Colonial Service before coming to Palestine.
Sources
- Sachar, Howard A. A History of Israel from Zionism to the Present. Second Edition. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) p. 125
- Daniel Monk. An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestinian Conflict - Terrible Episodes. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002) p. 156