Sir Roland Burrows (12 February 1882 – 13 June 1952) was an English judge and legal writer.Burrows, Sir Roland, (12 February 1882 – 13 June 1952), Barrister-at-law. Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc; online edition, Oxford University Press.Who Was Who 1951-1960. 2nd Edition. London. 1964. pp 162 & 163.
Burrows was born in Maidstone, Kent, and educated at St John's College, Southend; the University of London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in January 1904, was appointed King's Counsel in 1932, and became a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1940. He was Recorder of Chichester from 1926 to 1928, and again in 1951. He was Recorder of Cambridge from 1928 onward. He was the managing editor of the second edition of Halsbury's Laws of England. He was knighted in the 1946 New Year Honours."Obituary: Sir Roland Burrows". The Times. 16 June 1952. p 8.
Works He was editor of the first edition of what was then called Words and Phrases Judicially Defined (1943 to 1945).A J Walford (ed). "Dictionaries". Guide to Reference Material. 3rd Ed. The Library Association. 1973. p 182. He was the author of Interpretation of Documents (first edition, 1943;"Reviews" in "Law Library" (1944) 197 The Law Times 54 (12 February 1944). second edition, 1946)."Reviews" in "Law Library" (1946) 202 The Law Times 173 (12 October 1946)
He was the editor in chief of the second editionScan of Halsbury's Statutes of England."Notes and Reviews" in "Legal Literature" (1950) 100 The Law Journal 53 (27 January 1950)
Burrows was the editor of the seventh and eighthScan editions of Phipson's The Law of Evidence and the ninth editionScan called Phipson on the Law of Evidence, published in 1930, 1942 and 1952.(1930) 64 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 250 (18 October 1930); 77 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 182 (24 July 1943); 86 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 231 (20 September 1952). Burrows was the editor of the fifth, sixthScan and seventhScan editions of the abridgement Phipson's Manual of the Law of Evidence for the Use of Students, published in 1935, 1943 and 1950.(1935) 4 South African Law Times 223 (No 11: November 1935); 77 The Irish Law Times 256 (16 October 1943); (1950) 14 The Journal of Criminal Law 420
Burrows was joint author, with C M Cahn, of The Evidence Act, 1938 (1938).For a review of this book, see "Reviews (1938) 5 The Solicitor 283 (December 1938)
References "Sir Roland Burrows, Q.C." (1952) 213 The Law Times 368 (27 June 1952) (1952) 102 The Law Journal 337 and 348 (20 June 1952) "Sir Roland Burrows, Q.C." (1953) 96 Solicitors Journal 385 Google Books (1952) 68 Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports 195 Google Books (1952) 116 Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review 396 Google Books (1953) 27 Sussex County Magazine 400 Google Books. "Sir Roland Burrows" (1952) 28 New Zealand Law Journal 223 Google Books The Law List. Stevens. 1948. pp 71 & 108. Google Books. The London Gazette, 9 March 1928, p 1676. The London Gazette, 26 February 1926, p 1428. Halsbury's Laws of England. Third Edition. Volume 1. Page 12.