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Appeal judge appointments

17 July 2019
Issue: 7849 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Five judges are to join the Court of Appeal in the autumn. 

The Queen approved the appointment this week of commercial and professional negligence barrister, former Presider of the Midland Circuit, and keen actor and singer, Mrs Justice Carr, as a Lady Justice of Appeal. Also appointed to the court are intellectual property and media barrister and author, Mr Justice Arnold, and constitutional barrister, rugby player and lead counsel to the 2003 Hutton Inquiry, Mr Justice Dingemans.

Mr Justice Phillips, banking and finance barrister and director of civil training at the Judicial College, and commercial barrister and fishing enthusiast, Mr Justice Popplewell, have also been appointed as Lord Justices of Appeal.

The judicial selection panel was chaired by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett of Maldon, and also included Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton, and Lord Ajay Kakkar, the chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission. The five appointments will fill forthcoming vacancies in the Court of Appeal arising from autumn 2019.

Issue: 7849 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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