Lady Justice Nicola Davies | |
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 Davies in 2017 | |
| Lady Justice of Appeal | |
| Assumed office 2018 | |
| Justice of the High Court | |
| In office 2010–2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 March 1953 United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Birmingham University |
Dame Nicola Velfor Davies,DBE (born 13 March 1953) [1] is British barrister and judge who is currently a Lady Justice of Appeal,to which she was appointed in 2018. [2] At the Bar she practised in medical law. She is referred to as Rt Hon Lady Justice Nicola Davies.
Davies was born in Llanelli,Wales,and grew up in Bridgend. Her father,Eric Davies,was a chartered engineer who was employed by the Steel Company of Wales,and she has a younger brother called Jonathan. She was educated at Bridgend Girls' Grammar School (now closed),where she was the last head girl. [3] In 1971 she entered Birmingham University to read law.[ citation needed ]
After graduating,Davies worked briefly in a firm of solicitors before becoming an investment analyst in the City of London. [4] She later decided to become a barrister and did her second six-month pupillage at Carpmael Buildings,which later became 3 Serjeant's Inn. She was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1976. [3] As a young barrister acting as a junior counsel to the two doctors involved in the Cleveland child abuse cases,she became recognised as a medical specialist. She also became a member of the Treasury Panels.[ citation needed ]
In 1992,at the age of 39,she became a Queen's Counsel,and in 1998 she was appointed to sit as an Assistant Recorder. [3] She chaired two Inquiries. In 1998 Davies spent six months on the Bristol heart surgeon's case,then took on the defence of the doctor and serial killer Harold Shipman. [5]
In 2003,Davies was appointed as a deputy High Court judge. On judicial review she quashed a decision to close some National Health Service paediatric surgery units. [6] She was appointed a High Court judge in 2010.
In 2013 Davies was appointed as a Presiding Judge of the Wales Circuit between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2017. [7]
Davies is an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University. [8]
She was sworn as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 2018.
In July 2021,Davies made legal history,chairing the first all-female Court of Appeal session in Wales,sitting alongside Mrs Justice Jefford and Mrs Justice Steyn. [9]
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