He became a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland in 1979 . Amongst other cases , he sat in two particularly long-running cases : '' McColl v. Strathclyde Regional Council '' 1983 SC 225 , a 203-day hearing contesting the mandatory fluoridation of the water supply in Glasgow , and '' Santa Fe v. Heerama '' , a patent infringement case relating to semi-submersible drilling platforms in the North Sea which settled after 191 days in court . He held this post until 1988 , when he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary . He was appointed to the Privy Council and was created a life peer with the title '' ' Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle ' '' , of Comrie in the District of Perth and Kinross . He also sat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . He retired in 1996 , but the Queen appointed him a special commissioner and arbitrator in 1998 to determine a dispute between the Dean of Westminster Abbey and its dismissed organist , Dr Martin Neary and Mrs Neary . He was chairman of the House of Lords Committee in 2001-2 that investigated the crash of the RAF Chinook helicopter ZD576 in the Mull of Kintyre in 1994 that killed all 29 on board . He continued to be active in the House of Lords after his retirement , until a stroke in November 2004 . He twice caught MRSA while recuperating at Perth Royal Infirmary
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1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash
Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle