The European Court of Justice, formally just the Court of Justice, is the supreme court of the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union, it is tasked with interpreting EU law and ensuring its equal application across all EU member states under Article 263 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
Mary Genevieve Gaudron, is an Australian lawyer and judge, who was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. She was the Solicitor-General of New South Wales from 1981 until 1987 before her appointment to the High Court. After her retirement in 2002, she joined the International Labour Organization, serving as the President of its Administrative Tribunal from 2011 until 2014.
James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern, is a British advocate. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, Lord Advocate, and Lord Chancellor (1987–1997). He is an active member of the House of Lords where he sits as a Conservative.
Mary Howarth Arden, Baroness Mance,, known professionally as Lady Arden of Heswall, is an English judge.
Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond is a British judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until her retirement in 2020, and serves as a member of the House of Lords as a Lord Temporal.
Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers is a British lawyer and former senior judge.
Devilling is the period of training, pupillage or junior work undertaken by a person wishing to become an advocate in one of the legal systems of the United Kingdom or Ireland.
Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley, was a British jurist specialising in European and International Law, and a former judge of the European Court of Justice and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
Marilyn Louise Warren is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, Australia.
Terence Michael Elkan Barnet Etherton, Baron Etherton, PC, born 21 June 1951, was a British judge. He was the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice, the second most senior judge in England and Wales, from 2016 to 2021, and the Chancellor of the High Court, the head of the Chancery Division of the High Court of England and Wales, from 2013 to 2016.
David Philip Pannick, Baron Pannick, QC is a leading barrister in the United Kingdom, and crossbencher in the House of Lords. He practises mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights.
Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward is a Scottish lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Edward is an Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford; Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also an Honorary Sheriff of the Sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife at Perth, Scotland.
Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows, QC is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Professor of the Law of England and senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His work centres on private law. He is the main editor of the compendium English Private Law and the convenor of the advisory group that produced A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment as well as textbooks on English contract law. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 2 June 2020; he was the first Supreme Court judge to be appointed directly from academia.
The Dundee Law School is the law school of the University of Dundee in Scotland. It provides undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Scots and English law, permitting students to qualify into all three United Kingdom legal jurisdictions. The school is based in the Scrymgeour Building—named for Henry Scrymgeour, a 16th-century legal philosopher from Dundee—while the Law Library is based in the libraries building, both on the university's main campus. The Law School is part of the wider School of Social Sciences at Dundee.
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht was a British academic and lawyer, who specialized in International Law. The son of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, he was founder of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the Law Faculty in Cambridge University.
Professor Jonathan Harris, is a British barrister and internationally renowned legal scholar. He works as a barrister at Serle Court Chambers. He specializes in cross-border, commercial and chancery matters. He has appeared in the Supreme Court and the Privy Council in a number of high-profile cases. He has also drafted legislation for a number of jurisdictions.
R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union is a United Kingdom constitutional law case decided by the United Kingdom Supreme Court on 24 January 2017, which ruled that the British Government may not initiate withdrawal from the European Union by formal notification to the Council of the European Union as prescribed by Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union without an Act of Parliament giving the government Parliament's permission to do so. Two days later, the government responded by bringing to Parliament the European Union Act 2017 for first reading in the House of Commons on 26 January 2017. The case is informally referred to as "the Miller case" or "Miller I".
David William Kinloch Anderson, Baron Anderson of Ipswich, is a British barrister and life peer, who was the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation in the United Kingdom between 2011 and 2017. On 8 June 2018 it was announced that he would be introduced to the House of Lords as a cross-bench (non-party) working peer. On the same day he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE), for services to national security and civil liberties, in the Queen's 2018 Birthday Honours.
Dame Philippa Jane Edwards Whipple, is a British judge, former barrister, and former solicitor. Since October 2015, she has been a Justice of the High Court assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.
