Sir Tasker Watkins was a Welsh Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice. He was President of the Welsh Rugby Union from 1993 to 2004. During the Second World War,he served in the British Army and was awarded the Victoria Cross,the highest British award for valour in the face of the enemy. A war hero who was prominent in the law and in Rugby Union,Watkins was described as The Greatest Living Welshman.
Ferndale is a town and community located in the Rhondda Valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf,Wales. Neighbouring villages are Blaenllechau,Maerdy and Tylorstown. Ferndale was industrialised in the mid-19th century. The first coal mine shaft was sunk in 1857 and Ferndale was the first community to be intensively industrialised in the Rhondda Valley.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 2000 to Wales and its people.
Trealaw is a long village,also a community and electoral ward in the Rhondda Valley,Rhondda Cynon Taf,Wales. It stretches over two miles from the junction of Cemetery Road and Brithweunydd Road in the east,to the junction of Ynyscynon Road and Partridge Road to the northwest.
Herbert Edmund Edmund-Davies,Baron Edmund-Davies,PC was a British judge.
Sir Ronald Gough Waterhouse,GBE was a judge of the High Court of England and Wales between 1978 and 1996. As a judge his highest profile case was when he presided over the acquittal of comedian Ken Dodd on charges of tax evasion. Immediately upon his retirement he led a three-year inquiry into the North Wales child abuse scandal,which reported in 2000.
In the United Kingdom,a tribunal is a specialist court with jurisdiction over a certain area of civil law. They are generally designed to be more informal and accessible than 'traditional' courts.
Sir Gary Robert Hickinbottom is a British judge who currently serves as President of Welsh Tribunals and as Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor. In 2008,he became the fourth solicitor to be appointed a High Court judge,after Michael Sachs in 1993,Lawrence Collins in 2000,and Henry Hodge in 2004.
Pontypridd High School is an English-medium comprehensive school in the village of Cilfynydd near Pontypridd,in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf,Wales.
Roger John Laugharne Thomas,Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd,FLSW is a British judge. He served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2013 to 2017.
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 Martin James Moore-Bick,PC is a retired judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Sir David Roderick Evans FLSW is a former judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Sir Timothy Victor Holroyde,PC,styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Holroyde,is an English Court of Appeal judge,formerly a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales,Queen's Bench Division. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2017. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2017. In 2015 he was appointed a member of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales,and served as its Chairman between 2018 and 2022. In June 2022 he was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal,succeeding Lord Justice Fulford.
Sir Clive Buckland Lewis FLSW,styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Lewis,is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales,one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
Sir Brian Frederick James Langstaff is a British judge. Called to the Bar at the Middle Temple,he served as a High Court judge from 2005 to 2018 as Mr Justice Langstaff,and was the president of the Employment Appeal Tribunal from 2012 to 2015.
The President of Welsh Tribunals is a senior judge in Wales who presides over the Welsh tribunal system. The position was established by the Wales Act 2017 and is the first senior judicial role relating solely to Wales. The President of the Welsh Tribunals is not a devolved subject matter,however the Senedd may create additional Welsh tribunals.
Dame Amanda Louise Yip (née Kay) is a British High Court judge. Born in Liverpool,she is the daughter of Sir John Kay,a Lord Justice of Appeal.
Sir Peter Donald Fraser PC,styled The Right Honourable Lord Justice Fraser,is a Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
The King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts.
