Jonathan Hugh Mance, Baron Mance, (born 6 June 1943) is a retired British judge who was formerly

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Early life

Mance was born on 6 June 1943, (subscription required) one of four children of Sir Henry Stenhouse Mance, one-time chairman of

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, by his wife Joan Erica Robertson Baker. His grandfather, Sir

Henry Osborne Mance Brigadier general Sir Harry Osborne Mance, (2 October 1875 – 30 August 1966) was a senior British Army officer during the First World War, transportation expert and author. Biography Harry Osborne Mance was born in Karachi on 2 October 1875 ...

, was a distinguished soldier and President of the

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; his great-grandfather, Sir

Henry Christopher Mance Sir Henry Christopher Mance, (6 September 1840 – 21 April 1926) was a British electrical engineer and a former president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was knighted for developing the heliograph. Career Born in Exeter, he was ...

, invented the

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. Like his father, he attended

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, a

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. He then studied law at

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and graduated with a first class degree. He was

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by the

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in 1965, becoming a QC in 1982 and a

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in 1989.

Judicial career

In 1990, he became a

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, and on 25 October 1993 was appointed a High Court judge, serving in the

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, and received the customary

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. On 27 April 1999, he was appointed a

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, and appointed to the

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. On 3 October 2005, he was appointed a

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with a

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as Baron Mance, ''of

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in the

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''. He was introduced in the

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on 12 October 2005. On 1 October 2009, he and nine other Lords of Appeal became

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of the

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upon that body's inauguration. In a speech to the Hoge Raad in The Netherlands in 2013, Lord Mance described the creation of the Supreme Court as the consequence of a "back of an envelope plan", which "took some years to straighten out". He has also served as Chairman of the Banking Appeals Tribunal (1992–93), Chairman of the Consultative Council of European Judges (2000), President of the British Insurance Law Association (2000–02) and trustee of the European Law Academy (2003). Mance was appointed

in September 2017, succeeding

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who became President of the Supreme Court. He was sworn into the new position on 2 October 2017. He retired from the Supreme Court on 6 June 2018.

Other appointments

In October 2012, the

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, the

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, appointed Lord Mance as High Steward of the University of Oxford, on the retirement of Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood. He served in this position until 2018. He is an honorary fellow of

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, and

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. In 2013 he received an

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from Canterbury Christ Church University. He is the current Chief Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court, an

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centre based in

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Selected cases

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Personal life

He is married to Lady Arden, herself a former

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; the two are the first married couple to serve concurrently in the

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or consecutively in the Supreme Court. They have two daughters and a son, Henry, who is the chief features writer of the

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. Lord Mance's interests include tennis, languages and music.

References

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