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AG ECJ - Advocate General, European Court of Justice

CA Court of Appeal

CJ Circuit Judge

C of J of Sc. College of Justice of Scotland

HC CD High Court - Chancery Division

HC FD High Court - Family Division

HC QBD High Court - Queen's Bench Division

HC NI High Court of Northern Ireland

HL House of Lords

LCJ Lord Chief Justice (NI: of Northern Ireland)

LJ of Sc Lord Justice-General of Scotland

MR Master of the Rolls

PFD President of the Family Division

VC Vice-Chancellor

Senior Judiciary List

Details correct as at 13 June 2008

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LORDS OF APPEAL IN ORDINARY
(Law Lords)		 Date of Birth Date of Appt.
Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG 13.10.33 6.6.00
(LCJ 4.6.96
MR 1.10.92
CA 3.2.86
HC QBD 14.4.80)
Lord Hoffmann 8.5.34 21.2.95
(CA 30.9.92
HC CD 10.6.85)
Lord Hope of Craighead 27.6.38 1.10.96
(LJ of Sc. 1989)
Lord Saville of Newdigate 20.3.36 28.7.97
(CA 11.1.94
HC QBD 18.1.85)
Lord Scott of Foscote 2.10.34 17.7.00
(VC 4.10.94
CA 1.10.91
HC CD 23.11.83)
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry 18.9.44 1.10.01
(LJ of Sc. 1996)
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe 17.3.38 1.10.02
(CA 1.10.97
HC CD 3.10.94)
Lady Hale of Richmond 31.1.45 12.1.04
(CA 4.10.99
HC FD 12.1.94)
Lord Carswell 28.6.34

12.1.04
(LCJ NI 6.1.97
CA NI 8.11.93
HC NI 6.1.84)
Lord Brown of Eaton-Under-Heywood 9.4.37 13.1.04
(CA 1.10.92
HC QBD 28.9.84)
Lord Mance 6.6.43 3.10.05
(CA 28.4.99
HC QBD 25.10.93)
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury 10.1.48 11.1.07
(CA 12.1.04
HC CD 1.10.96)
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THE HEADS OF DIVISION Date of Birth Date of Appt.
The Rt Hon Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
(Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales)
 21.1.38 3.10.05
(MR 6.6.00
HL 12.1.99
CA 2.10.95
HC QBD 12.1.87)
The Rt Hon Sir Anthony Peter Clarke
(Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice)
 13.5.43 3.10.05
(CA 1.10.98
HC QBD 11.1.93)
The Rt Hon Sir Igor Judge
(President of the Queen’s Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice)		 19.5.41 3.10.05
(CA 4.6.96
HC QBD 10.10.88)
The Rt Hon Sir Mark Howard Potter
(President of the Family Division and Head of Family Justice)		 27.08.37 7.4.05
(CA 4.6.96
HC QBD 27.4.88)
The Rt Hon Sir Robert Andrew Morritt CVO
(The Chancellor of the High Court)		 5.2.38 17.7.00
(CA 3.10.94
HC CD 15.4.88)
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LORDS JUSTICES OF APPEAL Date of Birth Date of Appt.
Sir Malcolm Thomas Pill 11.3.38 1.2.95
(HC QBD 15.1.88)
Sir Alan Hylton Ward 15.2.38 13.2.95
(HC FD 5.10.88)
Sir Mathew Alexander Thorpe 30.7.38 2.10.95
(HC FD 11.4.88)
Sir George Mark Waller
(Vice-President Civil Division of the Court of Appeal)		 13.10.40 1.10.96
(HC QBD 25.5.89)
Sir John Frank Mummery 5.9.38 1.10.96
(HC CD 3.10.89)
Sir Richard Joseph Buxton 13.7.38 1.10.97
(HC QBD 11.1.94)
Sir Anthony Tristram Kenneth May
(Vice-President, Queen's Bench
Division of the High Court)		 9.9.40 8.12.97
(HC QBD 16.1.91)
Sir Simon Lane Tuckey 17.10.41 1.10.98
(HC QBD 7.4.92)
Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws 10.5.45 12.1.99
(HC QBD 15.1.92)
Sir Stephen John Sedley 9.10.39 12.1.99
(HC QBD 1.10.92)
Sir David Nicholas Ramsey Latham
(Vice President, Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal) 		18.9.42 25.3.00
(HC QBD 27.4.92)
Sir Bernard Anthony Rix 8.12.44 2.5.00
(HC QBD 26.7.93)
Dame Mary Howarth Arden DBE 23.1.47 2.10.00
(HC CD 30.4.93)
Sir David Wolfe Keene 15.4.41 2.11.00
(HC QBD 3.10.94)
Sir John Anthony Dyson 31.7.43 11.01.01
(HC QBD 30.3.93)
Sir Andrew Centlivres Longmore 25.8.44 11.01.01
(HC QBD 25.10.93)
Sir Robert John Anderson Carnwath CVO 15.3.45 15.01.02
(HC CD 3.10.94)
Sir Thomas Scott Gillespie Baker 10.12.37 1.10.02
(HC FD 10.10.88
HC QBD 1.1.93)
Dame Janet Hilary Smith DBE 29.11.40 21.11.02
(HC QBD 9.11.92)
Sir Roger John Laugharne Thomas 22.10.47 14.7.03
(HC QBD 11.1.96)
Sir Robert Raphael Hayim
(Robin) Jacob		 26.4.41 17.10.03
(HC CD 1.10.93)
Sir Nicholas Peter Rathbone Wall 14.3.45 12.1.04
(HC FD 20.4.93)
Sir Maurice Ralph Kay 6.12.42 12.1.04
(HC QBD 17.1.95)
Sir Anthony Hooper 16.9.37 24.03.04
(HC QBD 14.2.95)
Sir William Marcus Gage 22.4.38 23.09.04
(HC QBD 1.10.93)
Sir Timothy Andrew Wigram Lloyd 30.11.46 06.04.05
(HC CD 1.10.96)
Sir Martin James Moore-Bick
(Deputy Head of Civil Justice)		 6.12.48 07.04.05
(HC QBD 2.10.95)
Sir Nicholas Allan Roy Wilson 9.5.45 3.10.05
(HC FD 20.4.93)
Sir Alan George Moses 29.11.45 3.10.05
(HC QBD 13.6.96)
Sir Stephen Price Richards 8.12.50 3.10.05
(HC QBD 1.12.97)
Dame Heather Carol Hallett DBE 16.12.49 3.10.05
(HC QBD 14.4.99)
Sir Anthony Philip Gilson Hughes 11.8.48 25.4.06
(HC QBD 12.1.04)
(HC FD 1.10.97)
Sir Brian Henry Leveson 22.6.49 2.10.06
(HC QBD 23.10.00)
Sir Lawrence Anthony Collins 7.5.41 11.1.07
(HC CD 28.9.00)
Sir Roger Grenfell Toulson 23.9.46 29.1.07
(HC QBD 17.4.96)
Sir Colin Percy Farquharson Rimer 30.1.44 02.10.07
(HC CD 3.10.94)
Sir Stanley Jeffrey Burnton 25.10.42 21.04.08
(HC QBD 19.7.00)
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HIGH COURT -
CHANCERY DIVISION		 Date of Birth Date of Appt.
Sir John Edmund Frederic Lindsay 16.10.35 1.10.92
Sir Edward Christopher Evans-Lombe 10.4.37 8.7.93
Sir William Anthony Blackburne 24.2.44 1.10.93
Sir Nicholas John Patten 7.8.50 2.10.00
Sir Terrence Michael Elkan Barnet Etherton
(Chairman of the Law Commission)		 21.6.51 11.01.01
Sir Peter Winston Smith 1.5.52 15.04.02
Sir Kim Martin Jordan Lewison 1.5.52 29.04.03
Sir David Anthony Stewart Richards 9.6.51 1.10.03
Sir George Anthony Mann 21.5.51 19.01.04
Sir Nicholas Roger Warren 20.05.49 18.04.05
Sir David James Tyson Kitchin 30.4.55 3.10.05
Sir Michael Townley Featherstone Briggs 23.12.54 3.07.06
Sir Launcelot Dinadin James Henderson 20.11.51 11.01.07
Sir Paul Hyacinth Morgan 17.8.52 19.4.07
Sir Alastair Hubert Norris 17.12.50 1.10.07
Sir Gerald Edward Barling 18.9.49 5.11.07
Sir Christopher David Floyd 20.12.51 8.11.07
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HIGH COURT -
QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION		 Date of Birth Date of Appt.
Sir Stuart Neil McKinnon 14.8.38 20.1.88
Sir John Thayne Forbes 28.6.38 24.5.93
(CJ 5.6.90)
Sir Andrew David Collins 19.7.42 11.10.94
Sir Alexander Neil Logie Butterfield 28.9.42 28.2.95
Sir Robert Franklyn Nelson 19.9.42 16.4.96
Sir David Eady 24.3.43 21.4.97
Sir Jeremy Mirth Sullivan 17.9.45 1.10.97
Sir David Herbert Penry-Davey 16.5.42 12.11.97
Sir David William Steel 7.5.43 19.1.98
Sir Nicolas Dusan Bratza
(Judge of the European Court of Human Rights)		 3.3.45 30.10.98
Sir Michael John Burton 12.1.46 23.11.98
Sir Rupert Matthew Jackson 7.3.48 12.1.99
Sir Patrick Elias 28.3.47 4.5.99
Sir Richard John Pearson Aikens 28.8.48 6.5.99
Sir Stephen Robert Silber 26.3.44 3.12.99
Sir John Bernard Goldring 9.11.44 3.12.99
Dame Anne Judith Rafferty DBE 26.7.50 21.2.00
Sir Geoffrey Douglas Grigson 28.10.44 19.4.00
(CJ 19.4.89)
Sir Richard Henry Quixano Henriques 27.10.43 19.4.00
Sir Stephen Miles Tomlinson 23.9.52 2.5.00
Sir Andrew Charles Smith 31.12.47 19.7.00
Sir Christopher John Pitchford 28.3.47 28.9.00
Sir Duncan Brian Walter Ouseley 24.2.50 2.11.00
Sir Richard George Bramwell McCombe 23.9.52 11.01.01
Sir Raymond Evan Jack 13.11.42 11.01.01
(CJ 23.5.91)
Sir Robert Michael Owen 19.09.44 15.01.01
Sir Colin Crichton Mackay 26.09.43 24.01.01
Sir John Edward Mitting 8.10.47 3.04.01
Sir David Roderick Evans 22.10.46 23.04.01
(CJ 30.11.92)
Sir Nigel Anthony Lamert Davis 10.3.51 1.10.01
Sir Peter Henry Gross 13.2.52 1.10.01
Sir Brian Richard Keith 14.4.44 2.10.01
Sir Jeremy Lionel Cooke 28.4.49 2.10.01
Sir Richard Alan Field 17.4.47 15.1.02
Sir Colman Maurice Treacy 28.7.49 1.10.02
Sir Peregrine Charles Hugo Simon 20.6.50 1.10.02
Sir Roger John Royce 27.8.44 21.10.02
Dame Laura Mary Cox DBE 8.11.51 4.11.02
Sir Adrian Bruce Fulford 8.1.53 21.11.02
Sir Jack Beatson 3.11.48 29.04.03
Sir Michael George Tugendhat 21.10.44 29.04.03
Sir David Clive Clarke 16.7.42 1.10.03
(CJ 20.10.93)
Dame Elizabeth Gloster DBE 5.6.49 21.04.04
Sir David Michael Bean 25.3.54 19.7.04
Sir Alan Fraser Wilkie 26.12.47 1.10.04
(CJ 9.4.97)
Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs DBE 3.01.51 1.10.04
Sir Henry Egar Garfield Hodge OBE 12.01.44 1.10.04
(CJ 25.10.99)
Sir Paul James Walker 28.09.54 15.11.04
Sir David Calvert-Smith 6.04.45 11.01.05
Sir Christopher Simon Courtnay Stephenson Clarke 14.03.47 11.01.05
Sir Charles Peter Lawford Openshaw 21.12.47 3.10.05
(CJ 16.3.99)
Dame Caroline Jane Swift DBE 30.5.55 3.10.05
Sir Brian Frederick James Langstaff 30.4.48 3.10.05
Sir David Lloyd Jones 13.1.52 3.10.05
Sir Vivian Arthur Ramsey 24.5.50 1.11.05
Sir Nicholas Edward Underhill 12.5.52 20.1.06
Sir Stephen John Irwin 5.2.53 18.5.06
Sir Nigel John Martin Teare 8.1.52 2.10.06
Sir John Griffith Williams 20.12.44 11.01.07
(CJ 18.4.00)
Sir Wyn Lewis Williams 31.3.51 11.01.07
(CJ 1.4.04)
Sir Timothy Roger Alan King 5.4.49 29.01.07
Sir John Henry Boulton Saunders 15.3.49 19.04.07
(CJ 26.2.04)
Sir Julian Martin Flaux 11.5.55 14.05 07
Sir Nicholas Felix Stadlen 3.5.50 2.10.07
Sir Robert Akenhead 15.9.49 2.10.07
Sir David Robert Foskett 19.3.49 2.10.07
Sir Nicholas John Gorrod Blake 21.6.49 20.11.07
Sir Ross Frederick Cranston 23.7.48 26.11.07
Sir Peter David William Coulson 31.3.58 14.01.08
(CJ 29.06.04)
Sir David Maddison 22.1.47 29.01.08
(CJ 13.10.92)
Sir Richard Owen Plender 9.10.45 31.01.08
Sir William James Lynton Blair 31.3.50 27.02.08
Sir Alistair Geoffrey MacDuff 26.5.45 15.04.08
(CJ 24.03.97)
Sir Ian Duncan Burnett 28.2.58 12.05.08
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HIGH COURT -
FAMILY DIVISION		 Date of Birth Date of Appt.
Sir Jan Peter Singer 10.9.44 11.1.93
Sir Hugh Peter Derwyn Bennett 8.9.43 21.2.95
Sir Edward James Holman 21.8.47 18.3.95
Dame Mary Claire Hogg DBE 15.1.47 2.10.95
Sir Arthur William Hessin Charles 25.4.48 12.1.98
Sir David Roderick Lessiter Bodey 14.10.47 12.1.99
Dame Jill Margaret Black DBE 1.6.54 4.10.99
Sir James Lawrence Munby 27.7.48 22.5.00
Sir Paul James Duke Coleridge 30.5.49 28.9.00
Sir Mark Hedley 23.8.46 15.1.02
(CJ 19.3.92)
Dame Anna Evelyn Hamilton Pauffley DBE 13.1.56 1.10.03
Sir Roderic Lionel James Wood 8.3.51 12.1.04
(CJ 12.2.02)
Dame Florence Jacquelene Baron DBE 7.10.52 26.1.04
Sir Ernest Nigel Ryder 19.12.57 4.5.04
Sir Andrew Ewart McFarlane 20.06.54 18.04.05
Dame Julia Wendy Macur DBE 17.4.57 3.10.05
Sir Andrew John Gregory Moylan 23.6.53 23.2.07
Dame Eleanor Warwick King DBE 13.9.57 4.4.08
Dame Judith Mary Frances Parker DBE 19.6.50 13.6.08
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Presiding/Liaison/Supervising Judges

Senior Presiding Judge

 

Senior Presiding Judge Lord Justice Leveson Date of Expiry
31.12.11
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Presiding Judges

 

Circuit Presiding Judges Date of Expiry
South Eastern Mr Justice Gross
Mr Justice Calvert-Smith
Mr Justice Bean
Mr Justice Cooke
Mr Justice Fulford		 31.12.08
31.12.09
31.12.10
31.12.10
wef 01.01.09
Midland Mr Justice Treacy
Mrs Justice Macur 		31.12.09
31.12.11
North Eastern Mr Justice Simon
Mr Justice Wilkie
Mr Justice Openshaw 		31.12.08
31.12.10
wef 01.01.09
Northern Mr Justice David Clarke
Mr Justice Irwin		 31.12.09
31.12.11
Wales Mr Justice Davis
Mr Justice Lloyd Jones		 31.12.09
31.12.11
Western Mr Justice Owen
Mr Justice Royce
Mr Justice Field		 31.12.08
31.12.10
wef 01.01.09
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Family Division Liaison Judges

 

Circuit Family Division Liaison Judges
South Eastern Mr Justice Hedley (London)
Mrs Justice Pauffley (South Eastern)
Mrs Justice Baron (South East)
Midland Mr Justice McFarlane
North Eastern Mr Justice Moylan
Northern Mr Justice Ryder
Wales Mr Justice Wood
Western Mr Justice Coleridge
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Chancery Supervising Judges

 

Circuit Chancery Supervising Judges
South Eastern Chancellor of the High Court
Midland Mr Justice Lewison
North Eastern Mr Justice Patten
(Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine)
Northern Mr Justice Patten
(Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine)
Wales Mr Justice Lewison
Western Mr Justice Lewison
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Judges of the Commercial, Admiralty, Patents and Administrative Courts

The following judges are nominated to be judges of the Commercial Court and of the Admiralty Court:

 

Mr Justice David Steel
Mr Justice Burton
Mr Justice Aikens
Mr Justice Tomlinson
Mr Justice Andrew Smith
Mr Justice Gross
Mr Justice Field
Mr Justice Cooke
Mr Justice Simon
Mr Justice Beatson
Mrs Justice Gloster
Mr Justice Christopher Clarke
Mr Justice Teare
Mr Justice Walker
Mr Justice Flaux

The following judges are nominated to be judges of the Patents Court:

 

Mr Justice Patten
Mr Justice Lewison
Mr Justice Mann
Mr Justice Kitchin
Mr Justice Floyd

The following judges are nominated to hear cases in the Administrative Court:

 

Mr Justice Forbes
Mr Justice Collins (Lead Judge)
Mr Justice Bennett (Family)
Mr Justice Holman
Mr Justice Eady
Mr Justice Sullivan
Mr Justice Charles (Family)
Mr Justice Burton
Mr Justice Jackson
Mr Justice Elias
Mr Justice Black
Mr Justice Silber
Mr Justice Goldring
Mr Justice Henriques
Mr Justice Munby (Family)
Mr Justice Pitchford
Mr Justice Ouseley
Mr Justice Mr Justice McCombe
Mr Justice Owen
Mr Justice Mitting
Mr Justice Gross
Mr Justice Davis
Mr Justice Keith
Mr Justice Simon
Mr Justice Fulford
Mr Justice Beatson
Mr Justice Bean
Mr Justice Wilkie
Mrs Justice Dobbs
Mr Justice Hodge
Mr Justice Walker
Mr Justice Calvert-Smith
Mr Justice Langstaff
Mr Justice Lloyd-Jones
Mr Justice Underhill
Mr Justice Irwin
Mr Justice Wyn Williams
Mr Justice King
Mr Justice Saunders
Mr Justice Stadlen
Mr Justice Foskett
Mr Justice Blake
Mr Justice Cranston
Mr Justice Plender

 

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Other Posts held by Senior Members of the Judiciary

 

Judge in charge of the jury and non–jury lists Mr Justice Eady
Judge in charge of the TCC Mr Justice Ramsay
Judge in charge of the Administrative Court Mr Justice Collins
Chairman of the Law Commission Mr Justice Etherton
Chairman of the Judicial Studies Board Mr Justice Keene
President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal Mr Justice Elias
President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Mr Justice Hodge
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Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Sir Nicolas Dusan Bratza

Retired Senior Judiciary under 75

Retired Supreme Court Judges Date of Birth Career History
Sir Anthony Evans RD 11.6.34 HC QBD, 6.12.84
CA, 1.10.92
ret. 1.5.00
Sir Donald Keith Rattee 9.3.37 HC FD, 23.5.89
HC CD, 20.4.93
ret. 31.12.00
Dame Heather Steel DBE 3.7.40 CJ, 3.12.86
HC QBD, 30.9.93
ret. 1.10.01
Sir William Aldous 17.3.36 HC CD, 28.6.88
CA 9.2.95
ret. 17.10.03
Sir Charles Barrie Knight Mantell 30.1.37 CJ 4.11.85
HC QBD, 26.4.90
COA 1.10.97
ret. 23.03.04
Sir Michael Guy Vicat Harrison 28.9.39 HC QBD 19.7.93
ret. 30.9.04
Sir Michael John Astill 31.1.38 CJ 24.9.84
HC QBD, 6.6.96
ret. 3.12.04
Sir Peter Leslie Gibson 10.6.34 HC CD 27.4.81
CA 23.03.93
ret. 4.04.05
Sir Paul Joseph Morrow Kennedy 12.6.35 HC QBD 23.11.83
CA 24.6.92
ret. 30.9.05
Sir Andrew Edward Wilson Park 27.1.39 HC CD 3.11.97
ret. 30.06.06
Sir Henry Brooke 19.7.36 HC QBD 28.7.88
CA 4.6.96
ret. 30.9.06
Sir Jonathan Frederic Parker 8.12.37 HC CD 4.11.91
COA 17.07.00
ret. 29.1.07
Sir Thomas Richard Atkin Morison 15.1.39 6.12.93
ret 9.5.07
Sir Anthony David Colman 27.5.38 HC QBD 9.12.92
ret 15.6.07
Sir Robin Ernest Auld 19.7.37 HC QBD 13.1.88
CoA 1.2.95
ret 30.9.07
Sir George Michael Newman 4.7.41 HC QBD 3.5.95
ret 1.10.07
Sir John Murray Chadwick ED 20.1.41 HC CD 25.9.91
CoA 1.10.97
ret 4.11.07
Sir Christopher John Holland 1.6.37 HC QBD 25.9.92
ret 23.11.07
Sir Gavin Anthony Lightman 20.12.39 HC CD  18.5.94
Ret. 10.1.08
Sir Peter John Cresswell 24.4.44 HC QBD 15.1.91
Ret. 11.1.08
Sir Charles Anthony St John Gray 6.7.42 HC QBD 1.10.98
Ret. 13.2.08
Sir Christopher John Sumner 28.8.39 CJ 26.10.87
HC FD 13.6.96
Ret. 3.4.08
Sir Christopher John Pitchers 2.10.42 CJ 12.12.86
HC QBD 16.1.02
Ret. 13.4.08
Sir Andrew Tristram Hammett Kirkwood 5.6.44 HC PFD 20.4.93
Ret. 8.06.08
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