We are delighted to announce that Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill are joining the Faculty of Law as Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows.
Baroness Hale of Richmond studied Law at Girton College, Cambridge, and went on to teach Law at the University of Manchester, becoming Professor of Law in 1986. She became a Law Commissioner in 1984, was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1989 and was appointed as a Recorder in 1989. She became a judge in the Family Division of the High Court in 1994, a member of the Court of Appeal in 1999 and in 2004 was the first woman to be appointed to the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. Baroness Hale became Deputy President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in 2013 and President of that Court in 2017, retiring in 2020.
Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill studied Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1968 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1985. He was appointed to the Chancery Division of the High Court in 1994 and served as Chairman of the Law Commission from 1999 to 2002. Lord Carnwath was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2002, became the first Senior President of Tribunals in 2007 and became a Justice of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in 2011, retiring in 2020.
As Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows, Lord Carnwath and Baroness Hale will be participating in the intellectual life of the Faculty in a variety of ways, including through the work of the Faculty’s research centres. We are grateful to Baroness Hale for her contribution to our Exploring Law programme and for her participation in a recent in a recent event concerning the constitutional role of the judiciary, and we look forward to the lecture that Lord Carnwath will give this term on the Independent Human Rights Act Review.