Mary Howarth Arden,Baroness Mance,,PC,known professionally as Lady Arden of Heswall,is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Before that,she was a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom for all civil cases,and for criminal cases originating in England,Wales and Northern Ireland. As the United Kingdom’s highest appellate court for these matters,it hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance affecting the whole population.
The Senators of the College of Justice in Scotland are judges of the College of Justice,a set of legal institutions involved in the administration of justice in Scotland. There are three types of senator:Lords of Session;Lords Commissioners of Justiciary;and the Chairman of the Scottish Land Court. Whilst the High Court and Court of Session historically maintained separate judiciary,these are now identical,and the term Senator is almost exclusively used in referring to the judges of these courts.
Nicholas Addison Phillips,Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers,,,is a British former senior judge.
There are various levels of judiciary in England and Wales—different types of courts have different styles of judges. They also form a strict hierarchy of importance,in line with the order of the courts in which they sit,so that judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales are given more weight than district judges sitting in county courts and magistrates' courts. On 1 April 2020 there were 3,174 judges in post in England and Wales. Some judges with United Kingdom-wide jurisdiction also sit in England and Wales,particularly Justices of the United Kingdom Supreme Court and members of the tribunals judiciary.
Anthony Peter Clarke,Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony,is a British lawyer. He was one of the first 11 Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Justices and was the first High Court judge to be appointed directly to that court when it came into existence on 1 October 2009 without previously having sat as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was appointed to the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong on 11 April 2011 as a non-permanent judge. He was previously Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales. He retired from the Supreme Court in September 2017.
Robert John Anderson Carnwath,Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill,CVO,PC is a former British Supreme Court judge.
Roger Grenfell Toulson,Lord Toulson,PC was a British lawyer and judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
David James Tyson Kitchin,Lord Kitchin,PC is a British judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2018 to 2023. He has also served as a Lord Justice of Appeal from 2011 to 2018.
Nicholas Archibald Hamblen,Lord Hamblen of Kersey,PC is British judge currently serving as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Prior to his judicial career Hamblen was a specialist in maritime and commercial law.
Michael Townley Featherstone Briggs,Lord Briggs of Westbourne,is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He served earlier as a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Patrick Stewart Hodge,Lord Hodge,PC is a British lawyer,currently serving as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
John Anthony Dyson,Lord Dyson,is a former British judge and barrister. He was Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice,the second most senior judge in England and Wales,from 2012 to 2016,and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2012. He was the first justice to be appointed who was not a peer.
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom are the judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom other than the president and the deputy president of the court. The Supreme Court is the highest court of the United Kingdom for all civil cases,and for criminal cases from the jurisdictions of England and Wales and Northern Ireland. Judges are appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the prime minister,who receives recommendations from a selection commission.
Jill Margaret Black,Lady Black of Derwent,is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Nicholas Allan Roy Wilson,Lord Wilson of Culworth,PC known as Lord Wilson,is a retired British judge. On 26 May 2011,he became a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,having previously served as a Lord Justice of Appeal since 2005. Lord Wilson has specialised in family law throughout his career. In December 2016,as one of the 11 Justices of the Supreme Court,Lord Wilson heard the Government's appeal of R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on the use of prerogative powers to start the process of leaving the European Union following the referendum on 23 June 2016.
David Lloyd Jones,Lord Lloyd-Jones,PC,FLSW is a British judge and legal scholar. He has served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2017,and has also served as a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and as a chairman of the Law Commission prior to joining the Supreme Court.
George Andrew Midsomer Leggatt,Lord Leggatt,is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,the highest court of law in the United Kingdom.
Vivien Judith Rose,Lady Rose of Colmworth,is a British judge currently serving as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Philip James Sales,Lord Sales,PC is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He took office on 14 January 2019.
