Lady Elish Frances Angiolini is a Scottish lawyer who currently serves as Lord Clerk Register. Angiolini has worked at the University of Oxford since 2012 and has been identified as a potential candidate in the 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election.
The Northern Circuit is a circuit of the General Council of the Bar and English judiciary.
Constance Briscoe is a former barrister,and was one of the first black female recorders in England and Wales. In May 2014,she was jailed for three counts of doing an act tending to pervert the course of justice in R v Huhne and Pryce. She was disbarred and removed from the judiciary.
Sir Adrian Bruce Fulford is a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. From 2017 to 2019,he was the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner,and was the Vice-President of the Court of Appeal in 2019,succeeding Lady Justice Hallett.
Dame Elizabeth Gloster,Lady Popplewell,DBE,PC is a British lawyer who was a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Vice-President of the Civil Division. She was the first female judge of the Commercial Court.
Francis Mulholland,Lord Mulholland,is a Scottish judge who has been a Senator of the College of Justice since 2016. He previously served from 2011 to 2016 as Lord Advocate,one of the Great Officers of State of Scotland and the country's chief Law Officer,and as Solicitor General,the junior Law Officer.
Sir Nigel Hamilton Sweeney KC,styled The Hon. Mr Justice Sweeney,is a former High Court judge. He retired on 18 March 2023.
The World's End Murders is the colloquial name given to the murder of two girls,Christine Eadie,17,and Helen Scott,17,in Edinburgh,in October 1977. The case is so named because both victims were last seen alive leaving The World's End pub in Edinburgh's Old Town. The only person to stand trial accused of the murders,Angus Robertson Sinclair,was acquitted in 2007 in controversial circumstances. Following the amendment of the law of double jeopardy,which would have prevented his retrial,Sinclair was retried in October 2014 and convicted of both murders on 14 November 2014. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 37 years,the longest sentence by a Scottish court,meaning he would have been 106 years old when he was eligible for a potential release on parole. He died at HM Prison Glenochil aged 73 on 11 March 2019. Coincidentally,he died on the same day the BBC's Crimewatch Roadshow programme profiled the murders.
Sir John Henry Boulton Saunders,formerly styled The Hon. Mr Justice Saunders,is a retired High Court Judge of the King's Bench Division.
Sir Brian Henry Leveson is a retired English judge who served as the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice.
Regina v Christopher Huhne and Vasiliki Pryce is the prosecution of the former British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change,Chris Huhne MP,and his former wife,Vicky Pryce,the former Head of the Government Economic Service,for perverting the course of justice,contrary to common law. Huhne became the first Cabinet minister in British history to resign as a consequence of criminal proceedings. On 4 February 2013,Huhne was convicted on the basis of his own plea after re-arraignment. The trial of Pryce began on the following day,lasting until 20 February 2013 when the jury were discharged by the judge. A re-trial began on 25 February 2013 and led to the conviction of Pryce on 7 March 2013.
Sir Timothy Victor Holroyde,PC,styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Holroyde,is an English Court of Appeal judge,formerly a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales,Queen's Bench Division. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2017. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2017. In 2015 he was appointed a member of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales,and served as its Chairman between 2018 and 2022. In June 2022 he was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal,succeeding Lord Justice Fulford.
R v Coulson,Brooks and others was a trial at the Old Bailey in London,England,arising from the News International phone hacking scandal.
The murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar occurred in November 1998 in Overtown,North Lanarkshire,Scotland. Two prosecutions –in 1999 and in 2000 –were unsuccessful. Two inquiries were held that reported in 2001. Eighteen years after the crime,in October 2016,a conviction was made. This was only the second time in Scottish legal history that a person was tried twice for the same crime. This controversial case raised a number of complicated legal issues,including the double jeopardy rule,as well as institutional racism on the part of investigating police and prosecutors.
Oliver Edwin James Glasgow KC is a barrister who specialises in criminal law. Since November 2015 he served as one of the Senior Treasury Counsel at the Old Bailey,prosecuting serious criminal cases. On 1 January 2021 he was appointed First Senior Treasury Counsel by the Attorney General,Suella Braverman KC.
2 Hare Court is a barristers' chambers specialising in criminal and regulatory law,located in the Inner Temple,one of the four Inns of court. Established in the 1967,It employs 77 barristers,including 23 King's Counsel and several former prosecutors,including those who have acted as First Senior,Senior and Junior Treasury Counsel –barristers appointed by the Attorney General to prosecute the most serious and complex criminal cases to come before the courts.
Dame Amanda Louise Yip (née Kay) is a British High Court judge. Born in Liverpool,she is the daughter of Sir John Kay,a Lord Justice of Appeal.
Joanna Korner is a British judge of the International Criminal Court.
Sir Julian Nicholas Goose is a British High Court judge.
Dame Christina Caroline Lambert DBE,styled Mrs Justice Lambert is a British High Court judge.
