The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom for all civil cases,and for criminal cases originating in England,Wales and Northern Ireland. As the United Kingdom’s highest appellate court for these matters,it hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance affecting the whole population.
Alan Ferguson Rodger,Baron Rodger of Earlsferry was a Scottish academic,lawyer,and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Jonathan Hugh Mance,Baron Mance,is a retired British judge who was formerly Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
The Hong Kong order of precedence is a nominal and symbolic hierarchy of important positions within the Government of Hong Kong. Administered by the government's Protocol Division,the hierarchy does not determine the order of succession for the office of Chief Executive,which is instead specified by the Basic Law of Hong Kong.
Leonard Hubert "Lennie" Hoffmann,Baron Hoffmann is a senior South African–British judge. Currently,he serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong;he formerly served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1995 to 2009.
Anthony Philip Gilson Hughes,Lord Hughes of Ombersley,PC is a former English judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He was previously a Lord Justice of Appeal and Vice-President of the Criminal Division from 2009,following the retirement of Lord Justice Latham,to 9 April 2013.
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.
Simon Denis Brown,Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood,was a British barrister and judge. He was a Law Lord,then a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2012.
Sir Richard Rashleigh Folliott Scott,Baron Scott of Foscote,is a British judge,who formerly held the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
Peter Julian Millett,Baron Millett,,was a British barrister and judge. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1998 to 2004.
Michael John Mustill,Baron Mustill,PC,FBA was an English barrister and judge. He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1992 to 1997.
Robert John Anderson Carnwath,Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill,CVO,PC is a former British Supreme Court judge.
The President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is equivalent to the now-defunct position of Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary,also known as the Senior Law Lord,who was the highest ranking among the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The President is not the most senior judge of the judiciary in England and Wales;that position belongs to the Lord Chief Justice. The current President is Robert Reed,since 13 January 2020.
Nicholas Archibald Hamblen,Lord Hamblen of Kersey,PC is British judge currently serving as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Prior to his judicial career Hamblen was a specialist in maritime and commercial law.
This is a complete list of the judgments given by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between the court's opening on 1 October 2009 and the end of that year. Most of the cases were heard in the House of Lords before judgments were given in the new Supreme Court. The court heard 17 cases during this time;they are listed in order of each case's Neutral citation number.
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom are the judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom other than the president and the deputy president of the court. The Supreme Court is the highest court of the United Kingdom for all civil cases,and for criminal cases from the jurisdictions of England and Wales and Northern Ireland. Judges are appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the prime minister,who receives recommendations from a selection commission.
Sir Brian Henry Leveson is a retired English judge who served as the President of the Queen's Bench Division and Head of Criminal Justice.
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.
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.
