Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC, is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004, when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords. Until June 2007, she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date, and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, is a retired Scottish judge who served as the Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, Scotland's most senior judge, and later as first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2013. He had previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He served as Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords from 2015 to 2019. From October 2015 to December 2023 and continuing, Lord Hope served as remunerated Chief Justice of Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts.
Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers,, , is a British former senior judge.
Igor Judge, Baron Judge,, was an English judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the head of the judiciary, from 2008 to 2013. He was previously President of the Queen's Bench Division, at the time a newly created post assuming responsibilities transferred from the office of lord chief justice. From 2019 to 2023, he served as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers in the House of Lords.
Sir Robin Ernest Auld, is a former Lord Justice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
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.
Sir Stephen Brown GBE, PC is a British retired judge. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal and the President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales.
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.
Sir Anthony James Denys McCowan was a British barrister and judge of the High Court of Justice and Court of Appeal best known for trying the case of Clive Ponting in 1985. After studying at Epsom College he won a scholarship to study history at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he switched to law, and he was called to the Bar in 1951. After gaining a strong practice in criminal, property and personal injury law he was made a Queen's Counsel in 1972, and was appointed a judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in 1981. In 1989 he became a judge of the Court of Appeal, but only sat for eight years until ill health forced him to retire in 1997. He died on 3 July 2003.
Sir Rupert Matthew Jackson, PC is a retired justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Currently he serves as a Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court.
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.
Roger John Laugharne Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd, FLSW is a British judge. He served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2013 to 2017.
Sir Jack Beatson,, was a Lord Justice of Appeal from January 2013 to February 2018 when he became a full-time arbitrator at 24 Lincoln's Inn Fields. He was previously a High Court judge in the Queen's Bench Division, a Law Commissioner and Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
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.
Sir Wyn Lewis Williams, is a Welsh judge who was the President of Welsh Tribunals until 2023. He had been a High Court judge from 2007 until his retirement on 10 February 2017.
Sir Nicholas Edward Underhill, styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Underhill, is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Sue Lascelles Carr, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill,, is an English judge who has served as Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales since 1 October 2023. She is the first woman to serve as the head of the judiciary of England and Wales since the inception of the office of Lord Chief Justice in the 13th century. Carr previously served as a High Court judge from 2013 to 2020 and a Lady Justice of Appeal from 2020 to 2023.
Sir David Michael Bean is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Sir Stephen Edmund Phillips, styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Phillips, is a judge of the Court of Appeal having previously served as a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Sir Stephen John Irwin, is a retired British judge and barrister. From September 2016 until October 2020, he was a Lord Justice of Appeal. From May 2006 to 2016, he served as a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
