Lady Elish Frances Angiolini is a Scottish solicitor. She was the lord advocate of Scotland from 2006 until 2011,having previously been solicitor general since 2001. She was the first woman,the first procurator fiscal,and the first solicitor to hold either post. Since September 2012,Angiolini has been the principal of St Hugh's College,Oxford. She has been a pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2017 and is an Honorary Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She also served as Chancellor of University of the West of Scotland from 2013 to 2021. Since leaving office she has led several investigations and inquiries,including a review of deaths in police custody commissioned by the then-Home Secretary Theresa May. In June 2022,she was appointed a Lady of the Order of the Thistle by Queen Elizabeth II;she is currently the only non-royal woman appointed to the order. In June 2023,she was appointed to the office of Lord Clerk Register by King Charles III,the first woman to hold the role since its creation in the 13th century.
The Northern Circuit is a circuit of the General Council of the Bar and English judiciary.
Heather Carol Hallett,Baroness Hallett,,is a retired English judge of the Court of Appeal and a crossbench life peer. The first woman to chair the Bar Council and the fifth woman to sit in the Court of Appeal,Hallett led the independent inquest into the 7/7 bombings. In April 2019,she was appointed Chair of the Security Vettings Appeal Panel. In December 2021,she was announced as the chair of the public inquiry into the UK Government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. On 29 June 2022,the Government accepted Baroness Hallett's proposed terms of reference for the inquiry,with minor changes suggested by the devolved administrations.
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.
Alan Turnbull,Lord Turnbull is a Scottish lawyer,and a Senator of the College of Justice,a judge of the country's Supreme Courts. He was one of the lead prosecutors in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial.
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 High Court judge.
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 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 61 barristers,including 16 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.
Joanna Korner is a British judge of the International Criminal Court.
Dame Christina Caroline Lambert DBE,styled Mrs Justice Lambert is a British High Court judge.
