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'''Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|DBE|PC|FBA}} (born 31 January 1945)<ref>[http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/keyfacts/list_judiciary/senior_judiciary_list.htm Senior Judiciary List], Ministry of Justice.</ref> is an English [[judge]] and the current [[Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]]. |
'''Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|DBE|PC|FBA}} (born 31 January 1945)<ref>[http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/keyfacts/list_judiciary/senior_judiciary_list.htm Senior Judiciary List] {{webarchive|url=http://www.webcitation.org/69TygpIEa?url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list |date=28 July 2012 }}, Ministry of Justice.</ref> is an English [[judge]] and the current [[Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom]]. |
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In 2004, she joined the [[House of Lords]] as a [[Lord of Appeal in Ordinary]]. She is the only woman to have been appointed to this position. She served as a Law Lord until 2009 when she, along with the other Law Lords, transferred to the new [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|Supreme Court]]. |
In 2004, she joined the [[House of Lords]] as a [[Lord of Appeal in Ordinary]]. She is the only woman to have been appointed to this position. She served as a Law Lord until 2009 when she, along with the other Law Lords, transferred to the new [[Supreme Court of the United Kingdom|Supreme Court]]. |
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The Baroness Hale of Richmond | |
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President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Designate | |
Assuming office 2 October 2017 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Succeeding | The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury |
Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
Assumed office 28 June 2013 | |
President | The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury |
Preceded by | The Lord Hope of Craighead |
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
In office 1 October 2009 – 27 June 2013 | |
Preceded by | Position created |
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
In office 12 January 2004 – 30 September 2009 | |
Preceded by | The Lord Millett |
Succeeded by | Position eliminated |
Lady Justice of Appeal | |
In office 1999–2003 | |
High Court Judge Family Division | |
In office 1994–1999 | |
Appointed by | Elizabeth II |
Personal details | |
Born | Brenda Marjorie Hale 31 January 1945 Yorkshire, England |
Spouses |
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Alma mater | Girton College, Cambridge |
Profession | Barrister |
Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE PC FBA (born 31 January 1945)[1] is an English judge and the current Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
In 2004, she joined the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. She is the only woman to have been appointed to this position. She served as a Law Lord until 2009 when she, along with the other Law Lords, transferred to the new Supreme Court.
It was announced on 21 July 2017 that Hale will become the first female President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, taking office on 2 October 2017. It was also announced that Jill Black will become the second female Justice of the Supreme Court on the same date. [2]
Early life
Born in West Yorkshire, England in 1945,[3] Baroness Hale is the second of three sisters. Both her parents became headteachers. She was educated in Richmond in North Yorkshire at the Richmond High School for Girls (now part of Richmond School), and later studied at Girton College, Cambridge, where she read law and graduated with a starred first and top of her class. After becoming assistant lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester, she was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1969, topping the list in the bar finals for that year.
Working part-time as a barrister, Hale spent 18 years mostly in academia, becoming Professor of Law at Manchester in 1986. Two years earlier, she became the first woman and youngest person to be appointed to the Law Commission, overseeing a number of important reforms in family law during her nine years with the Commission. In 1989, she was appointed Queen's Counsel.
Judicial career
Hale was appointed a Recorder (a part-time circuit judge) in 1989, and in 1994 became a judge in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice (styled The Honourable Mrs Justice Hale). Upon her appointment, as is convention, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). In 1999, Hale followed Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to become only the second woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal (styled The Right Honourable Lady Justice Hale), entering the Privy Council at the same time.
On 12 January 2004, she was appointed the first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer as Baroness Hale of Richmond, of Easby in the County of North Yorkshire,[4] under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.
In June 2013 she was appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to succeed Lord Hope of Craighead.
Personal life
In 1968, Hale married Anthony Hoggett, a fellow law lecturer at Manchester, with whom she had one daughter. The marriage was dissolved in 1992, in which year she married Julian Farrand, former Professor of Law at Manchester, Pensions Ombudsman and colleague of Hale's on the Law Commission.
Other
Hale is Visitor to Girton College, Cambridge, to which positions she was appointed in 2004. She is a member of the Athenaeum Club, London. From 2004 to the end of 2016 she was Chancellor of the University of Bristol.[5] Hale was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Salford, where the main Law building is named after her. In 2008, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Reading.
In 2011 Hale was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Glasgow.
On 10 September 2015, she delivered the Caldwell Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia, on the topic "Protecting Human Rights in the UK Courts: What are we doing wrong?".[6]
Selected cases
- The Public Prosecution Service v William Elliott and Robert McKee [2013] UKSC 32
- Secretary of State for the Home Department v MB and AF [2007] UKHL 46
- Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF and others [2009] UKHL 28
References
- ^ Senior Judiciary List Archived 28 July 2012 at WebCite, Ministry of Justice.
- ^ Lady Hale appointed next President of Supreme Court, alongside three new Justices, Supreme Court, 21 July 2017
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
- ^ "No. 57179". The London Gazette. 15 January 2004. p. 503.
- ^ "Nobel Prize winner announced as the University of Bristol's next Chancellor". Retrieved 2 March 2017.
- ^ "Caldwell Public Lecture", Trinity College Events [online], accessed, 25 Aug. 2015.
External links
- Profile from The Guardian, 9 January 2004
- 1945 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge
- Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester
- Academics of King's College London
- English barristers
- British Queen's Counsel
- English women judges
- Chancellors of the University of Bristol
- Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Female life peers
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Family Division judges
- Deputy Presidents of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Law lords
- Members of Gray's Inn
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
- Queen's Counsel 1901–2000
- British women lawyers