The Right Honourable Lord Penrose, born George William Penrose, is a Scottish judge (from 1990) and member of the Privy Council (from 2000) who sits in the specialist court for commercial actions . He is best known for heading the Penrose Inquiry into the near-collapse of the mutual life assurance company Equitable Life. In 2001, Lord Penrose was asked by the Treasury to investigate the history of the company. His 818-page report was published on March 8, 2004.
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