Sir Arthur Evan James, PC, DL (18 May 1916 – 13 May 1976) was a British judge and was a member of the Court of Appeal from 1973 to his death.
James was educated at Caterham School and then at Jesus College, Oxford where he obtained a double first in law followed, in 1939, by a BCL.
[1] He received considerable public attention in 1963 when he appeared for the prosecution in the Great Train Robbery trial.
[2] In 1964, James was asked to chair the statutory inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Metropolitan Police's Detective Sergeant Harold Challenor's being able to plant evidence and assault suspects.
[2] He was appointed deputy lieutenant for the County of Warwickshire in 1967, and was a trustee of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts from 1974 until his death.