David Maxwell Fyfe, a future prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials was one of his pupils and praised Lynskey's geniality and conviviality.
[2] In 1944 a provincial barrister educated at a redbrick university with little exposure to the London bar or specialist practice, no matter how successful, was an unusual appointment for a High Court judge.
However, he was appointed to the King's Bench and became an effective but unfailingly courteous judge in criminal trials at various assizes around England and Wales.
[3] His most prominent role was as chair of the 1948 eponymous tribunal into alleged corruption among government ministers and civil servants.
[4] and, during the tribunal, was minded to correct Attorney-General Hartley Shawcross as to the date the football season had ended.