Law Career
He was the Centennial Professor of Law at the LSE from 2005 to 2007.
He was appointed as a High Court judge in October 2007, assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. Marcel Berlins has noted that his appointment is unusual among judicial appointments in recent years, given that it occurred so soon after the end of his political career.
On 14 December 2007, sitting in the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, Cranston (together with Mr Justice Cooke) heard an appeal against sentence by a woman who had pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving, and other matters. Having stolen goods from a Tesco store she had driven her car straight at a security guard, who jumped onto the bonnet to avoid being hit. The appellant had screamed at him to get off, saying she would otherwise kill him. He eventually jumped off. A police car, its lights blazing and sirens switched on, pursued the appellant out of Leamington as she failed to stop. She was ultimately stopped by another police car blocking a slip-road. The sentencing judge had concluded that her actions were "deliberate, sustained and highly dangerous".
Cranston described this conduct as "a bad case of dangerous driving but not the worst", and reduced the judge's sentence of 15 months imprisonment to one of 9 months.
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