Sir Wintringham Norton Stable, MC (19 March 1888 – 23 November 1977) was a British High Court judge from 1938 to 1968.
He served throughout the conflict, first with the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and then with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was awarded the MC.
[3][2] Appointed a High Court Judge in 1938, he served until 1968 and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1965.
[3] In 1954 he presided over the "Philanderer Trial" (R. v. Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.)[8][2][9] and his summing up led to an applauded acquittal[3] and the discouragement of prosecutions for all but clear cases of obscenity.
He twice used the words "my dear" to a girl placed on probation in 1961 after she had been found guilty of harbouring a man convicted of a capital murder.