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Obituary Anthony Scrivener QC 19352015 Almost 200 people attended a very moving and cheerful funeral service for Anthony Scrivener QC, a great friend of trading standards, at Seven Hills Crematorium, Nacton, near Ipswich, in April. His son, Zoltan Scrivener, gave the congregation an upbeat account of his fathers unfailing sense of humour and courage, while his friend Karma Samdup, who was a student at the Pestalozzi Childrens Foundation when he rst met Anthony, spoke warmly of Tonys and his wife Yings generous hospitality. Tonys rst contact with trading standards was in December 1969, when the barrister represented Croydon Council in a Section 14 case against a leading UK tour operator that was alleged to have dumped golden sand on rocky beaches to produce misleading brochure pictures. The sand washed away with the rst tide, but the misleading images remained. Tony lost the case, but grew increasingly besotted with the Trade Descriptions Act, trading standards ofcers and the institute. We became one of his specialisms. He provided pro bono advice to the institutes trade descriptions committee and gave an electrifying speech to the 1971 annual conference in Southport. He then donated all fees and expenses back to the institute to help fund trainees, and became the go to barrister for local authorities with complex cases. His early disappointment in Croydon was never repeated. Between 1974 and 1976, he gave expert advice to the highly regarded Methven Committees Review of the Trade Descriptions Act. He was always witty and good humoured, and sailed around the law courts with a otilla of adoring and aspiring law students. Many successes followed, not least that this energetic and radical barrister became both the unlikely chairman of the Bar Council and, in the same year, president of the UKs European Food Law Association, a position he retained until its demise in 2006. He will be missed. Contributed by Paul Allen OBE and Jim Humble OBE, vice-presidents and Fellows of CTSI Published Thursday 28 May, 2015 To share this page, click on in the toolbar