THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD THOMAS OF CWMGIEDD
Lord Thomas read law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, at the University of Chicago Law School as a Commonwealth Fellow and Gray’s Inn. He practiced at the Commercial Bar in London from 1971 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1984.
He was appointed a Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of England and Wales in 1996 and of the Commercial Court in 1996. He was Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court in London (2002-2003) and was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2003. He was the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales (2003-2006), Vice-President of the Queen’s Bench Division (2008-2011) and President of the Queen’s Bench Division (2011-2013). He has been Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales since 2013.
He was President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (2008-2010) and is a founder member of the European Law Institute.
He is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and holds honorary degrees and fellowships from several other universities.
He is President of ARIAS (UK), Past President of the British Insurance Law Association, a Vice-President of the British Maritime Law Association and a Patron of the International Law Book Facility.
Born on 10 January 1948, Lord Neuberger was educated at Westminster School, later studied Chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating he worked at the merchant bank, N M Rothschild & Sons from 1970-1973 until he entered Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1974.
Lord Neuberger was made a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1987 and became a Bencher for Lincoln's Inn in 1993. His first judicial appointment was as a Recorder from 1990 until 1996 when he was appointed a High Court judge in the Chancery Division and was then the Supervisory Chancery Judge for the Midland, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits 2000 - 2004.
Since 1999 Lord Neuberger has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Spoliation of Art (in the Holocaust). Between 2000 to 2011 he was governor of the University of Arts London and from 2013 to 2014 Chairman of the Schizophrenia Trust. In 2014 he became a patron of MHUK.
In January 2004 he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal. He also led an investigation for the Bar Council into widening access to the barrister profession. In 2007 he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and created a life peer as Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury in the County of Dorset.
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