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The court comprises a president, a deputy president and 10 (puisne) justices, for a total of 12 judges, of which — by convention — nine are from England and Wales, two from Scotland, and one from Northern Ireland. At the court's creation, 10 judges were appointed from the House of Lords, and one was appointed directly to it.
The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 sets out the conditions for the appointments of a President, Deputy President or Justice of the Court. That person must have held high judicial office (judge of the Supreme Court, English High Court or Court of Appeal, Northern Irish High Court or Court of Appeal, or Scottish Court of Session) for at least two years, [6] or have held rights of audience at the ...
He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 16 November 2015. He retired on reaching the then applicable retirement age of 70 in June 2021. [2] On 17 August 2022, it was announced that Richards had been appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. [3]
This practice was established when the Court of Final Appeal was first set up in 1997 and before the founding of the UK Supreme Court, when the House of Lords was still the final appellate court in the UK. [62] When British justices sit on the top court of Hong Kong, they are required by law to take the judicial oath with the pledge of ...
In 2011, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal effective 5 October 2011, [4] and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council. Kitchin became a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC) on 1 October 2018, [5] taking the judicial courtesy title of Lord Kitchin. He served at the UKSC until his retirement on 29 ...
On 27 June 2018, it was announced that Simler was to be appointed to the Court of Appeal, an appointment she took up on 2 July 2019. [ 4 ] Simler was chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council , [ 5 ] and at the date of announcement of her appointment to the High Court bench in 2013 she was head of her chambers. [ 6 ]
It was announced on 21 July 2017 that Lord Justice Briggs would become a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He took office as a Supreme Court Justice on 2 October 2017, [1] taking the judicial courtesy title of Lord Briggs of Westbourne. [11] Lord Briggs of Westbourne was elected the 517th Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn for 2024. [12]
OBE ribbon. Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, OBE, PC, FSA, FRHistS, KC (born 9 December 1948), is a British author, medieval historian, barrister and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018, and a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal from 2019 to 2024.