Ingrid Simler, Lady Simler
Lady Justice Simler | |
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| Lady Justice of Appeal | |
| Assumed office 2019 | |
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| Born | 17 September 1963 |
| Alma mater | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University of Amsterdam |
Dame Ingrid Ann Simler, DBE (born 17 September 1963), styled The Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Simler, is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[1]
She was educated at Henrietta Barnett School, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of Amsterdam.[2]
She was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1987 and became a QC 2006. Simler was appointed a Recorder in 2002 and was a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) from 2013. She was President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal for a term of three years from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018.[3]
On 27 June 2018 it was announced that Simler was to be appointed to the Court of Appeal, an appointment she took up on 2 July 2019.[4]
Simler was chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales,[5] and at the date of announcement of her appointment to the High Court bench in 2013 she was head of her chambers.[6] She is the chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee of the Inner Temple.[7]
References
- ^ "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ ‘SIMLER, Ingrid Ann’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ^ "President of the EAT & Upper Tribunal Chamber President of the Lands Chamber". Retrieved 30 May 2016.
- ^ https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/biographies-of-the-7-newly-appointed-court-of-appeal-judges-2018/
- ^ "101202 Bar Council minutes". barcouncil.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "Ingrid Simler QC appointed to the High Court Bench | Devereux Chambers". www.devereuxchambers.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
- ^ "We Are Proud | Inner Temple". Retrieved 2019-07-11.
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