Sir Neil Lawson (8 April 1908 – 26 January 1996) was a British barrister and High Court judge.
He was the son of Robb Lawson and his wife Edith Marion Usherwood, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1929.
The following year, he was closely involved with Denis Pritt in the legal arguments about those falsely accused by the Nazis for the Reichstag fire.
MI5's lack of sophistication in recording this has led to erroneous suggestions that Lawson defended Georgi Dimitrov in court.
[3] Lawson was appointed a Justice of the High Court (Queen's Bench Division) in 1971, receiving the customary knighthood.