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Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing | |
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![]() Laing in 2021 | |
Lady Justice of Appeal | |
Assumed office 28 October 2020 | |
Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
High Court Judge Queen's Bench Division | |
In office 2014–2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Elisabeth Mary Caroline Laing 19 November 1956 |
Nationality | British |
Dame Elisabeth Mary Caroline Laing, DBE (born 19 November 1956),styled The Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing,is a Lady Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. [1]
She was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1980. A Recorder,and a former member of the Attorney General's Panel,she took Silk in 2008,and was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2010. She was appointed to the Welsh Government's Panel of Queen's Counsel in 2012. [1]
She has contributed to Halsbury's Laws ,and to Supperstone,Goudie and Walker's Judicial Review. She was on the editorial board of Local Government Reports,and was a member of the BSB's Standards Committee and of the Committee of the BBA.
She has been a judge of the High Court of Justice (assigned to the Queen's Bench Division) since 2014. [1] [2] In January 2017,she was appointed Chairman of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission,the Pathogens Access Appeal Commission,and the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission. [3] She was appointed to the Court of Appeal on 28 October 2020. [4]
Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing served as a judge in the Court of Appeal for a Windrush case of Hubert Howard in July 2022. [5]