The Lord Mance | |
---|---|
![]() Mance in 2019 | |
Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
In office 26 September 2017 –6 June 2018 | |
Nominated by | David Lidington |
Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
President | The Baroness Hale of Richmond |
Preceded by | The Baroness Hale of Richmond |
Succeeded by | Lord Reed |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
In office 1 October 2009 –25 September 2017 | |
Nominated by | Jack Straw |
Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Position created |
Succeeded by | Lady Arden of Heswall |
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
In office 3 October 2005 –1 October 2009 | |
Preceded by | The Lord Steyn |
Succeeded by | Position eliminated |
Lord Justice of Appeal | |
In office 27 April 1999 –3 October 2005 | |
High Court Judge | |
In office 1993 –27 April 1999 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Jonathan Hugh Mance 6 June 1943 |
Nationality | British |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Education | Charterhouse School |
Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
Occupation | Judge |
Profession | Barrister |
Jonathan Hugh Mance, Baron Mance, PC (born 6 June 1943) is a retired British judge who was formerly Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Mance was born on 6 June 1943, [1] one of four children of Sir Henry Stenhouse Mance, one-time chairman of Lloyd's of London, by his wife Joan Erica Robertson Baker. [2] [3] [4] His grandfather, Sir Henry Osborne Mance, was a distinguished soldier and President of the Institute of Transport; his great-grandfather, Sir Henry Christopher Mance, invented the heliograph.
Like his father, he attended Charterhouse School, a boarding school in Godalming, Surrey. He then studied law at University College, Oxford and graduated with a first class degree. [5] He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1965, becoming a QC in 1982 and a Bencher in 1989. [6]
In 1990, he became a recorder, and on 25 October 1993 was appointed a High Court judge, [7] serving in the Queen's Bench Division, and received the customary knighthood. [6] On 27 April 1999, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal, [8] and appointed to the Privy Council. [6]
On 3 October 2005, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary with a Life Peerage as Baron Mance, of Frognal in the London Borough of Camden . [9] He was introduced in the House of Lords on 12 October 2005. [10] On 1 October 2009, he and nine other Lords of Appeal became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration. In a speech to the Hoge Raad in The Netherlands in 2013, Lord Mance described the creation of the Supreme Court as the consequence of a "back of an envelope plan", which "took some years to straighten out". [11]
He has also served as chairman of the Banking Appeals Tribunal (1992–93), chairman of the Consultative Council of European Judges (2000), president of the British Insurance Law Association (2000–02) and trustee of the European Law Academy (2003). [1]
Mance was appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in September 2017, succeeding Baroness Hale who became President of the Supreme Court. [12] He was sworn into the new position on 2 October 2017. [13] He retired from the Supreme Court on 6 June 2018. [14]
In October 2012, the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, The Lord Patten of Barnes, appointed Lord Mance as High Steward of the University of Oxford, on the retirement of The Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood. [15] He served in this position until 2018. [5] [1] He is an honorary fellow of University College, [16] and Visitor of St Cross College, Oxford. In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from Canterbury Christ Church University. [17] He is the former Chief Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court, an adjudicative and arbitration centre [18] based in Kazakhstan. [19] [20]
He serves as an international judge on the Singapore International Commercial Court. [21]
He is married to Lady Arden of Heswall, herself a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom; [22] the two are the first married couple to serve concurrently in the Court of Appeal or consecutively in the Supreme Court. [23] They have two daughters and a son, Henry, who is the chief features writer of the Financial Times . [24] Lord Mance's interests include tennis, languages and music. [1]
Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 made him the first Lord Chief Justice to be President of the Courts of England and Wales. He was a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 2003 to 2012. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Mark Oliver Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, is a British judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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.
Johan van Zyl Steyn, Baron Steyn, PC was a South African-British judge, until September 2005 a Law Lord. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
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.
Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers,, , is a British former senior judge.
David Edmond Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury is an English judge. He served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2017. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary until the House of Lords' judicial functions were transferred to the new Supreme Court in 2009, at which point he became Master of the Rolls, the second most senior judge in England and Wales. Neuberger was appointed to the Supreme Court, as its President, in 2012. He now serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and formerly served as the Chair of the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom. He was appointed to the Singapore International Commercial Court as from 2018.
The President of the Family Division is the head of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and head of Family Justice. The Family Division was created in 1971 when Admiralty and contentious probate cases were removed from its predecessor, the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division.
Sir William James Lynton Blair is a British retired judge. He was previously a Queen's Counsel at London barristers' chambers 3 Verulam Buildings, specialising in domestic and international banking and finance law. He is the elder brother of Sir Tony Blair, the former British prime minister.
Robert John Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir, is a Scottish judge who has been President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since January 2020. He was the principal judge in the Commercial Court in Scotland before being promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2008. He is an authority on human rights law in Scotland and elsewhere; he served as one of the UK's ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights. He was also a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.
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.
Jill Margaret Black, Lady Black of Derwent, is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Sir Stephen Miles Tomlinson is an English barrister and former Lord Justice of Appeal.
Sir Brian Henry Leveson is a retired English judge who is the current Investigatory Powers Commissioner, having previously served as the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice.
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 James Michael Dingemans, styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Dingemans, is a judge of the Court of Appeal, having previously served as a High Court judge.
Ian Duncan Burnett, Baron Burnett of Maldon,, is a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2017 to 2023.
Sir David Michael Bean is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.