 In 1948, he sat with Sir George Lynskey and Sir Godfrey Vick on the Lynskey tribunal.Appointed to the Privy Council in 1960, he was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1960 to 1963.On 26 November 1963 he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made additionally a life peer by the style title Baron Upjohn, of Little Tey in the County of Essex.