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Vice-Chancellor Of The County Palatine Of Lancaster
The Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster is an office of the Duchy of Lancaster. The vice-chancellor is appointed by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster after consultation with the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Since 1987, the vice-chancellor has been a High Court judge of the Chancery Division with a term of approximately three years. The Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster exercises general supervision over the conduct of Chancery division business in the North of England and is an ''ex-officio'' member of the court of Lancaster University. Before the implementation of the Courts Act 1971, the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine was controlled by section 14 of the Administration of Justice Act 1881. From 1973 to 1987, Andrew James Blackett-Ord, a circuit judge held the post. Since then, the office has been held by a Justice of the High Court sitting in the Chancery Division. List of vice-chancellors Source: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchy Of Lancaster
The Duchy of Lancaster is the private estate of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster. The principal purpose of the estate is to provide a source of independent income to the sovereign. The estate consists of a portfolio of lands, properties and assets held in trust for the sovereign and is administered separately from the Crown Estate. The duchy consists of of land holdings (including rural estates and farmland), urban developments, historic buildings and some commercial properties across England and Wales, particularly in Cheshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and the Liberty of the Savoy, Savoy Estate in London. The Duchy of Lancaster is one of two duchies in England, royal duchies: the other is the Duchy of Cornwall, which provides income to the Duke of Cornwall, a title which is traditionally held by the Prince of Wales. As of the financial year ending 31 March 2022, the estate was valued at £652.8 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Stewart-Smith
Sir Dudley Stewart-Smith (3 February 1857 – 9 May 1919) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician and barrister. Background He was born in Paddington, London, the son of Alexander Stewart-Smith and Susannah Laming. After his father's death in Hong Kong in 1859, his mother remarried to grocer Worthington Evans; Laming Worthington-Evans was his half-brother. He was educated at University College London. He obtained an LLB at University of London, London University. He married Katherine Cautley of Burton Pidsea. They had two sons and three daughters. A son, Dudley Cautley Stewart-Smith was born in 1894''Who Was Who'' Career Stewart-Smith received a call to the bar in 1886, and was made a Bencher at Middle Temple. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel, King's Council in April 1902. He was Chairman of the Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster Quarter Sessions Hundred of Salford, (Salford Hundred). He was on the Council of the Victoria and Liverpool Universities. He was a R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Fancourt
Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt, styled Mr Justice Fancourt, is a judge of the High Court of Justice, English High Court. Personal life and education Fancourt was born on the 30th of August 1964 and attended Whitgift School in Croydon. He studied law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He married Emily Windsor in 2000, with whom he has a daughter. Career He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987. He initially became a tenant of London chambers at 11 Kings Bench Walk, latterly Falcon Chambers. As a barrister he specialised in real property and landlord and tenant law. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2003. In 1996 he was elected to the Bar Council of England and Wales. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 sitting at Harrow Crown Court until 2017. In 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Chancery Bar Association. He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2013 and as a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2017. He received the customary K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Snowden (judge)
Sir Richard Andrew Snowden, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (born 22 March 1962), styled Lord Justice Snowden, is a Lord Justice of Appeal. Biography Snowden was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. He was Call to the bar, called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1986, and elected a Bencher in 2010. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2003, a Recorder (judge), Recorder in 2006, and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2008. He was a member of the Insolvency Rules Committee between 2002 and 2012. He also edited several works on company and insolvency law. Snowden was appointed a Justice of the High Court (Chancery division, Chancery Division) on 30 April 2015, following the elevation of Philip Sales, Mr Justice Sales to the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Court of Appeal, and received the customary Knight Bachelor, knighthood the same year. On 19 September 2019, Snowden took on the role of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine and became Supervisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Barling
Sir Gerald Edward Barling (born 18 September 1949), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Barling, is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was educated at St. Mary's College, Blackburn and New College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1972. He was a judge of the High Court of Justice The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Its name is abbreviated as EWHC (Englan ... (Chancery Division) from 2007, and retired with effect from 19 September 2019. References 1949 births Living people Alumni of New College, Oxford Members of the Middle Temple Chancery Division judges Knights Bachelor {{UK-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Norris
Sir Alastair Hubert Norris (born 17 December 1950), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Norris, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was educated at Pate's Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1973. He has been a judge of the High Court of Justice The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Courts of England and Wales, Senior Cou ... (Chancery Division) since 2007. In 2018 he was knighted and granted a coat of arms by letters patent.A grant of Arms, Crest and Badge was made to Sir Alastair Hubert NORRIS of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, knight, by Letters Patent of Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms dated 3 September 2018. College reference: Grants 181, 223. College of Arms, 130 Queen Victoria Street, London, London EC4V 4BT, United Kingdom. http://www.coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Briggs (judge)
Michael Townley Featherstone Briggs, Lord Briggs of Westbourne, (born 23 December 1954) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He served earlier as a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. By Royal Warrant, he bears the courtesy title of Lord Briggs of Westbourne. Education He was educated at Charterhouse School and Magdalen College, Oxford. Legal career Michael Briggs was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1978 and was the Junior Counsel to Crown Chancery from 1990-94. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1994. He was made a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 2001, and was appointed Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster on 24 July of that year. He held the post until shortly after his appointment to the High Court. On 3 July 2006, he was appointed as a Justice of the High Court, receiving the customary knighthood and being assigned to the Chancery Division. From 2012 to 2013, Mr Justice Briggs was Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Richards (judge)
David Anthony Stewart Richards, Lord Richards of Camberwell, PC (born 9 June 1951) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Biography The son of Kenneth Richards, MBE and Winifred Richards, he was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1973; MA 1980). He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1974. He was made a QC in 1992 and judge of the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) in 2003. He was appointed as a chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2014. 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. On 17 August 2022, it was announced that Richards had been appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom are the judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom other than the president and the deputy president. The Supreme Court is the highest court of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Patten
Sir Nicholas John Patten (born 7 August 1950) is a former member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Education Tulse Hill School, Tulse Hill Comprehensive School for boys; Christ Church, Oxford. Career Patten was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1974 and made a Bencher in 1997. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1988. He was appointed a Deputy High Court judge in 1998. On 2 October 2000, he was appointed to the High Court of Justice, receiving the customary knight bachelor, knighthood, and was assigned to the High Court of Justice#Chancery Division, Chancery Division. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 2005 to 2008. On 8 June 2009, Patten became a Lord Justice of Appeal, and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Privy Council the same year. He retired on 8 August 2020, having reached the statutory retirement age for judges. See also * List of Lords Justices of Appeal References 1950 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Lloyd
Sir Timothy Andrew Wigram Lloyd, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (born 30 November 1946) is an English former judge who was a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Court of Appeal. Lloyd was educated at Winchester College and Lincoln College, Oxford.Badcock, C. F.; La Corrie, J. R. ''Winchester College: A Register for the Years 1930 To 1975''. Winchester College, 1992. p. 443 He was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1970 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel, QC in 1986. He was appointed Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1993, he was made a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, High Court on 1 October 1996, receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Chancery Division. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, a Chancery judge appointed by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on the advice of the Lord Chancellor to supervise Chancery business in the North. He was appointed a Lord Justice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blackburne
Sir William Anthony Blackburne (born 24 February 1944) is a retired High Court Judge at the Royal Courts of Justice in London who is presently the Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Blackburne was Called to the Bar in 1966 from Inner Temple, although a year or two later he joined Lincoln's Inn and eventually became a Queen's Counsel in 1984. He practised from 13 Old Square. Blackburne became a High Court judge in the Chancery Division on 1 October 1993 and retired on 27 October 2009. Since retiring Blackburne sat as a High Court Judge on a part-time basis. He also served as Treasurer (Chairman of the Governing Body) of Lincoln's Inn. Blackburne is currently associated with Maitland Chambers, formed in 2001 from the merger of 13 Old Square and 7 Stone Buildings, as an arbitrator. Early life William Blackburne was born in early 1944 to an English father and Norwegian mother. After schooling in his native Yorkshire, he studied languages and law at the University of Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Parker
Sir Jonathan Frederic Parker (born 8 December 1937) is a retired British Lord Justice of Appeal. Education Sir Jonathan was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, the son of Sir Edmund Parker (1908–1981) and Elizabeth Mary Butterfield (died 1984). His father was a distinguished accountant who was senior partner of Price Waterhouse & Co. and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from 1967–68. He was educated at Winchester College and then Magdalene College, Cambridge. Career He was called to the Bar in 1962. He was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1979. He became a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1985, and served as head of chambers at 11 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn. He became a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division in 1991 when he received the customary knighthood. He then became a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2000, whereupon he was appointed to the Privy Council in the usual way. He retired from the bench in 2007. He also ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
