| Honorific Prefix: | Sir | ||||||||
| Basil Hall | |||||||||
| Office1: | HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor | ||||||||
| Term1: | 1975-1980 | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 2 January 1918 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Finsbury Park, London, England | ||||||||
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Sir Basil Brodribb Hall, KCB, MC (2 January 1918, Finsbury Park – 2 May 2011) was a British civil servant.[1]
Hall was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. He became an articled clerk with Gibson & Weldon in 1935; and was admitted solicitor in 1942. During World War II he served with the 27th Lancers. When peace returned he joined the Civil Service's Treasury Solicitor’s Department; and rose to become Treasury Solicitor from 1975 until 1980. He was Chairman of the Civil Service Appeal Board from 1981 to 1984; and the UK Member of the European Commission of Human Rights from 1985 to 1993.[2]