Sir Francis Humphrey Potts (18 August 1931 – 2 December 2012) was an English barrister and judge.
[3] Sawoniuk, who died in 2005, is the only person to have been convicted under the War Crimes Act 1991[4] Born in County Durham in 1931, he grew up in Penshaw, where his parents were farmers.
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle where he was a contemporary and life-long friend of Peter Taylor[5] and Geoffrey Bindman.
[6] He read law at St Catherine's College, Oxford and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1955.
[8] In one of the final trials he presided over, in July 2001, Potts sentenced Jeffrey Archer to four years in prison for perjury.