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Life
(1916-1978): b. Ireland, son of John & Dora Cusack (KC), who became a judge and sat for Newry, Co. Down, as a Unionist, Jan. 1910; lost his father, 1940; ed. King's College School, and the London University (grad. LLB. 1939); also in Italy; called to Bar (Gray's Inn, 1940); served during World War II, 1939-46; Staff Captain, HQ Eastern Command, 1943-44; promote to Major; Deputy-Assistant Military Secretary at War Office, 1944-46; returned to law.
member of General Council of the Bar, 1953 to 1960; QC in 1960; appt. Recorder of Gloucester, 1961-64; Recorder of Wolverhampton, 1964-66; appt. High Court judge, 1966; knighed and elected a Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn, 1966; in 1962 he successfully defended Brendan Mulholland of the Daily Mail and Reg Foster of the Daily Sketch who refused to disclose their sources of information to the Vassall Tribunal.
he was judge in the case of Mary Bell at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the 11-year old girl convicted of strangling two boys in infant years to death on separare occasions (Martin Brown and Brian Howe) in 1968; he died suddenly in March 1978; considered an ideal judge; remained unmarried; a br. John [“Jake”] Cusack (d.1968) was Minister of the Interior of Kenya during the Mau Mau period.; a br. Dermot died in a car accident, 1914.