Robert John Anderson Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill,

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, PC (born 15 March 1945) is a former British Supreme Court judge. The son of Sir Andrew Carnwath KCVO, Robert Carnwath was educated at

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, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship, and

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. Carnwath was called to the

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in 1968. He practised in parliamentary law, planning and local government, revenue law, and administrative law. He held the appointment of Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue (Common Law) from 1980 to 1985, succeeded by

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, later Lord Justice Moses. He became a

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in 1985, and was Attorney General to the Prince of Wales from 1988 to 1994. He was appointed as a High Court judge on 3 October 1994, assigned to the

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, and received the customary

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. He served as Chairman of the Law Commission from 1999 to July 2002. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal on 15 January 2002 and, as is customary, became a member of the Privy Council. He was sworn in as the first

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on 12 November 2007. On 20 December 2011, Carnwath was announced as an appointee to the

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. By Royal Warrant, all members of the Supreme Court, even if they do not hold a peerage, are entitled to the judicial style and title "Lord" for life. Carnwath was granted the courtesy style Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill. Carnwath is the Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. He plays the

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and

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, as well as singing in the Bach Choir. Lord Carnwath is an Honorary Professor of Law at

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, an Honorary Fellow of

, and a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Research Institute at the

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. Outside the law, he is a keen amateur musician. He is a former Governor of the

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(Hon FRAM) and former Chairman of the Britten-Pears Foundation.

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