'Judicial Impartiality: Essential or Impossible?': Lord Neuberger (Location changed)

Please note change of venue to: Elton-Bowring Room, Gillespie Centre, Clare College (Entrance via Memorial Court; accessible also through gate opposite University Library)

Lord Neuberger, former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, will talk on: 'Judicial Impartiality: Essential or Impossible?'

Lord Neuberger will examine this from the perspective of both court and arbitral adjudication. He will then receive questions.

The speaker

Having graduated as a scientist and spent three years as an investment banker, David Neuberger became a barrister in 1975, and in 1987 was appointed Queen’s Counsel. In 1996, he was appointed a High Court Judge, in the Chancery Division. In 2004, he was promoted to the Court of Appeal, and in 2007 he became a Law Lord. In 2009, he was appointed Master of the Rolls. In 2012, he became the President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, from which he retired in September 2017.

Since 2010, Lord Neuberger has been a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal; in January 2018, he became a Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. Lord Neuberger practises as an arbitrator from One Essex Court in the Temple, London (chambers of Lord Grabiner QC). Lord Neuberger is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, and an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

All members of the Law Faculty and all students in the University are welcome