The Court of Appeal is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales,and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The Court of Appeal was created in 1875,and today comprises 39 Lord Justices of Appeal and Lady Justices of Appeal.
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.
There are various levels of judiciary in England and Wales—different types of courts have different styles of judges. They also form a strict hierarchy of importance,in line with the order of the courts in which they sit,so that judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales are given more weight than district judges sitting in county courts and magistrates' courts. On 1 April 2020 there were 3,174 judges in post in England and Wales. Some judges with United Kingdom-wide jurisdiction also sit in England and Wales,particularly Justices of the United Kingdom Supreme Court and members of the tribunals judiciary.
Sir Peter Winston Smith,styled The Hon Mr Justice Peter Smith,and abbreiviated to Peter Smith J in judgements,is a former High Court judge who sat in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wale from 5 April 2002 to 27 October 2017. He was the subject of comment and investigation in relation to his judicial behaviour in various circumstances. He retired on 28 October 2017.
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 the Chair of the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.
Sir Robert Andrew Morritt,CVO,is a former British judge who served as Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales.
Sir Colin Percy Farquharson Rimer is a former judge of the English Court of Appeal;he retired in 2014.
Sir Timothy Roger Alan King,styled The Hon. Mr Justice King,is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.
Sir John Frank Mummery,DL is a former Lord Justice of Appeal and is President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and a member of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved in the UK.
Sir Martin James Moore-Bick,PC is a retired judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
The Vice-President of the Civil Division is a Court of Appeal Judge who assists the Master of the Rolls in leading the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. The power to appoint a vice-president was created by the Senior Courts Act 1981,but was not exercised until Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers was appointed Master of the Rolls in 2000. Because Lord Phillips was in the process of completing the inquiry into the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak,he appointed Sir Martin Nourse the first vice-president so he could serve as Acting Master of the Rolls.
Sir Martin Charles Nourse was a Lord Justice of Appeal of England and Wales,who served as Vice-President of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales from 2003 until his retirement from the bench in 2006.
Sir Arthur William Hessin Charles was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He retired on 17 February 2018. A former judge of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales and the President of the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal,he was latterly a judge of the Queen’s Bench Division and Vice-President of the Court of Protection.
Vivien Judith Rose,Lady Rose of Colmworth,is a British judge currently serving as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Sir Nicholas Edward Underhill,styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Underhill,is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos is a judge in England and Wales. Since January 2021,he has held the positions of Master of the Rolls and the Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales.
Dame Alison Hunter Russell,DBE,styled The Hon Ms Justice Russell,is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Sir Jonathan Frederic Parker,PC is a retired British Lord Justice of Appeal.
Sir Richard Andrew Snowden,PC,styled Lord Justice Snowden,is a Lord Justice of Appeal.
Sir Michael John Fordham,,styled The Hon. Mr Justice Fordham,is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales assigned to the King's Bench Division. He was appointed as a Justice of the High Court on 13 January 2020.
