Hartley Shawcross, 101, the one-time Labor Party loyalist who became an eminent figure in British legal and diplomatic circles just after World War II, died July 10 at his home south of London. The ...

Hartley William Shawcross MP, later Sir Hartley Shawcross and later Baron Shawcross, was an English barrister and Labour Party politician who first served in the post-War Labour government of 1945, ...

Hartley Shawcross's five-hour opening speech at Nuremberg set out the legal justification for the proceedings. He showed that the Tribunal, far from being an instrument of vengeance set up by the ...

PERHAPS Hartley Shawcross will be remembered by a single sentence: “There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.” He was presenting ...