After coming down from Cambridge with a double First and an unfortunate start to his National Service with the RAF, Peter Millett had a distinguished career at the Bar both in England and Hong Kong. Appointed to the High Court Bench and later the Court of Appeal, he was one of the last Law Lords to sit in the House of Lords before it was replaced by the Supreme Court, and became a judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong shortly after the handover.
