Nick Hanning

First legal executive recorder dies at 60

Nick Hanning, the first chartered legal executive to be appointed as a recorder, has died of cancer at the age of 60. A recorder is, in effect, a part-time circuit judge who may sit in the Crown Court, the family court or the county court.

Hanning’s appointment at the end of September was announced at a time when he was already gravely ill, though he ask…