Sir Alan George Moses (born 29 November 1945) is a former
Lord Justice of Appeal
A Lord Justice of Appeal or Lady Justice of Appeal is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the court that hears appeals from the High Court of Justice, the Crown Court and other courts and tribunals. A Lord (or Lady) Justice ...
, a
Court of Appeal
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Judge and the former chairman of
Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). He is joint Chair of the United Kingdom's
Spoliation Advisory Panel The Spoliation Advisory Panel advises the United Kingdom Government on claims for cultural property looted during the Nazi era.
The Panel is designated by the Secretary of State under Section 3 of the Holocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) Act 20 ...
.
Education
He was educated at
Bryanston School and
University College, Oxford.
Legal career
He was
called to the Bar
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by the
Middle Temple in 1968. He was a Member of the Attorney-General's Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown, Common Law from 1981 to 1990 and was Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue, Common Law from 1985 to 1990. He
took silk in 1990. He served as a
High Court Judge (Queen's Bench Division) from 1996 to 2005; Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit 1999-2002 and was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2005. In 2003 he was the judge in the high-profile
Soham murders case which led to the imprisonment of Ian Huntley. He retired from the Court of Appeal in May 2014.
Chairman of IPSO
He was appointed as the first Chairman of the
Independent Press Standards Organisation in 2014. He served two terms, which ended in December 2018. He was succeeded by
Lord Faulks QC
Chair of Spoliation Advisory Panel
He is joint Chair, together with Sir
Donnell Deeny, of the Spoliation Advisory Panel.
Spoliation Advisory Panel Chairs and members
gov.uk. Accessed 26 December 2022.
References
External links
"The forthright judge who relishes taking on the establishment"
TheGuardian.com; accessed 1 August 2017.
20th-century English judges
Living people
21st-century English judges
Lords Justices of Appeal
1945 births
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
English King's Counsel
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