Sir Alan George Moses (born 29 November 1945) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal, a Court of Appeal Judge and the former chairman of

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(IPSO). He is joint Chair of the United Kingdom's Spoliation Advisory Panel.

Education

He was educated at

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and

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Legal career

He was called to the Bar by the

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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 the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel (post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister or a ...

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 The Soham murders were a double child murder committed in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England on 4 August 2002. The victims were two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Aimee Chapman, who were lured into the home of a local resident an ...

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

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 Sir Donnell Justin Patrick Deeny , KC, SC (born 25 April 1950), styled as the Rt Hon Sir Donnell Deeny, is a mediator and arbitrator (ACIArb) and a former member of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland. Sir Donnell is also member of the Court ...

, of the Spoliation Advisory Panel.Spoliation Advisory Panel Chairs and members
gov.uk. Accessed 26 December 2022.

References

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"The forthright judge who relishes taking on the establishment"
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