Sir Ernest Ryder | |
|---|---|
 Lord Justice Ryder in 2013 | |
| Master of Pembroke College, Oxford | |
| Assumed office July 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Lynne Brindley |
Sir Ernest Nigel Ryder, TD , PC , DL (born 9 December 1957) became a Lord Justice of Appeal in April 2013 and was appointed Senior President of Tribunals in September 2015. In July 2020,Ryder became the Master of Pembroke College,Oxford. [1]
Ryder was educated at Bolton School and Peterhouse,Cambridge,and worked for the merchant bank,Grindley Brandt &Co 1979–81,before qualifying as a barrister.
He married Janette Martin in 1990,and they have one daughter.
Ryder was called to the Bar in 1981 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997. He became a Recorder in 2000,and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2001. [2] Ryder was appointed a High Court judge in 2004, [3] receiving the customary knighthood,and was allocated to the Family Division. On 9 April 2013,he was promoted Lord Justice of Appeal, [4] consequently being sworn of the Privy Council.
Ryder was appointed to the post of Judge in Charge of Modernisation of Family Justice in November 2011, [5] and under his stewardship published the Judicial Proposals for the modernisation of family justice in July 2012. [6] Many of the recommendations were implemented by the Children and Families Act 2014,including a 26-week time limit for determination of care and supervision proceedings. [7]
In July 2015 it was announced that Ryder had been appointed Senior President of Tribunals with effect from 18 September 2015. [8] He retired from that role on 19 September 2020. [9]
Ryder has been involved in a number of notable cases. He was lead counsel for a respondent mother in the leading domestic violence child contact order case,Re LVNH (Children) (Contact:Domestic Violence) [2001]. [10] He was Counsel to the North Wales Tribunal of Inquiry 1996–99. [11]
He was appointed as a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation in September 2014. [12]
In January 2014,he was installed as Chancellor of the University of Bolton.
In January 2020,he was elected as the next master of Pembroke College,Oxford. [13] He took up the post in July 2020, [14] in succession to Dame Lynne Brindley. [15]
Ryder has served as a Territorial Army officer in the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (later Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry) and received the Territorial Decoration in 1996.
He received a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Commission on 26 May 2023. [16]
