Julian Hallam

He was a man who loved people and had many varied interests, particularly in vintage cars, but also took to breeding prize-winning Limousin cattle as a complete contrast to his life as a lawyer.

He was born in Wakefield and was educated at Charterhouse, before going on to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1960 where he gained an MA in law.

After leaving Cambridge in 1963, he spent two years in articles at Hepworth and Chadwick, in Leeds. When he qualified as a solicitor in 1969 he became a partner in the family firm, Whitfield Hallam Goodall of Dewsbury, Batley and Mirfield until 1997, specialising in crime.

He became an Assistant Recorder on the North East Circuit in 1989 and was made a Recorder in 1993. He worked as a part-time Adjudicator on the Immigration Tribunal Appeals from 1998 to 2001, then full-time from 2001.

He also sat on the Motor Sports Association Tribunals,

a position he held until 2005 and in 1992 was appointed as the first chairman of the national Cattle Breeders' Association disciplinary appeals tribunal.

From an early age he was obsessed with motor sport and classic cars, first restoring an Anzani Frazer Nash which he trialled extensively with his brother Tim and his wife Gill in Vintage Sports Car Club events.

But it was his beloved yellow Type 49 Bugatti into which he poured so much of his enthusiasm when he set himself the ultimate challenge of restoring it.

He got it from the famous driver, Hamish Moffat, and

it took 11 years to restore

but once completed he competed in rallies in the UK and Europe and once took it on a 3,000 mile trip to Eastern Europe.

Mr Hallam took to farming when the family moved to Moor End Farm, Harewood, where he began breeding Galloways but then moved on to pedigree Limousin cattle which he and his wife showed very successfully.

His golden years were from 1985 to 1987. His Limousin bull Soleil took first and reserve champion at the Royal Show in 1985. He was reserve champion at The Royal Welsh and a string of successes followed including at the Great Yorkshire and Royal Highland shows.

Closer to home his bull Unisson took first and Supreme Champion at Otley Show in 1987, followed by success at Wetherby and the Great Yorkshire.

Mr Hallam, who lived in Farnley, near Otley, is survived by his wife Gill, and three sons, Damian, Mark and Oliver.