Supreme Court chief

Jenny Rowe, the chief executive of the Supreme Court, is to retire in the autumn. Rowe led much of the work involved in creating the Supreme Court and the transfer of staff and judges from the House of Lords and the Privy Council. Rowe says she is “proud to have played a key part in one of the country’s biggest constitutional developments in modern times, and to have attracted a great team to support the justices in their important work”. “It is an enormously stimulating role and the decision to step down at the end of this legal year was not an easy one to make, but I cannot think of a better position from which to end full time public service and to move on to the next phase of my life.”