Date Appointed
Appointed since 2015
QUALIFICATIONS
- University College, Oxford
- Called to the Bar of England by the Middle Temple, 1968
- Member of the Attorney-General’s Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, Common Law from 1981 to 1990
- Member of Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue, Common Law from 1985 to 1990
- Took Silk in 1990 and elected a Bencher in 1994
- Appointed a Recorder in 1986
- Formerly a Judge of the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) in 1996
- Formerly a Presiding Judge for the South East Circuit from 1999 to 2002
- Appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in 2005
- Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts, as Professor of Law, in 2006
- Appointed as the first chairman of the Independent Press Standards Organisation
- Appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal, Cayman Islands, 2015