sentences:  He was recorder of Southampton in 1936–37, and became Justice of the King's Bench Division of the High Court, between 1937 and 1945, receiving the customary knighthood upon his appointment.In 1945, Tucker presided over the trial of William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) for treason at the Central Criminal Court.Invested as a privy Councillor on 30 October 1945, Tucker was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1945 to 1950, became an Honorary Fellow New College Oxford in 1946.