Editing John Laws (judge) (section)

==Early life==
Laws was born on 10 May 1945,<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-10.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130510045939/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-10.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 10 May 2013 |work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=29 April 2014|date=10 May 2013|quote=Lord Justice Laws 68 }}</ref> the son of Dr Frederic Laws and his wife Dr Margaret Ross, ''née'' McKenzie, the daughter of the Congregational minister and academic [[John Grant McKenzie]].<ref>[https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-23973 "Laws, Rt Hon. Sir John (Grant McKenzie)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302102128/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-23973 |date=2 March 2020 }}, ''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 2 March 2020.</ref> He was educated at [[Chorister School, Durham|Durham Chorister School]], and as a King's Scholar at [[Durham School]]. He studied at [[Exeter College, Oxford]] as a Senior Open Classical Scholar, receiving a [[British undergraduate degree classification|First Class]] BA in 1967, and an [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|MA]] in 1976. He became an honorary [[fellow]] of the college in 2000.<ref name="whoswho">{{cite web|title=LAWS, Rt Hon. Sir John (Grant McKenzie)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U23973|work=[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=December 2008|access-date=25 July 2009}}</ref>