Anthony Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley

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Anthony Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley, 2018

Anthony Philip Gilson Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley , Kt , PC , QC (born August 11, 1948 in St Albans , Hertfordshire ) is an English lawyer and former Supreme Court Justice of the United Kingdom .

He attended Tettenhall College and studied law at Van Reduces College of the University of Durham , which he with a Bachelor of Laws graduated. He was admitted to the Inner Temple bar in 1970 and was a city ​​judge at the Crown Court in Birmingham from 1985 to 1997 . In 1990 he was appointed Crown Attorney ; from 1997 to 2006 he was a judge on the High Court of Justice . On November 6, 1997, he was beaten Knight Bachelor ("Sir"). From 2006 to 2013 he was a judge on the Court of Appeal .

On April 9, 2013, he was appointed Justice to the United Kingdom Supreme Court. According to the Royal Decree of March 28, 2011, all Supreme Court judges, unless they hold a peer title , receive at least the courtesy title of Lord for life . Thus Hughes received the courtesy title of Lord Hughes of Ombersley . The territorial dedication of this title refers to the place Ombersley in Worcestershire . Hughes' term ended on August 11, 2018, his 70th birthday.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who's Who 2017 . 169th edition. Bloomsbury Yearbooks, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4729-1360-9 (English).
  2. ↑ Knights and Dames: HOS – KIM at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  3. ↑ Lords Justices of Appeal. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012 ; accessed on March 1, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ Trio of judicial appointments to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court of the United Kingdom , February 26, 2013, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Courtesy titles for Justices of the Supreme Court. (PDF) Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, December 14, 2010, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 59746, HMSO, London, April 1, 2011, pp. 6177–6178 ( PDF , accessed March 2, 2018, English).
personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Anthony, Lord Hughes of Ombersley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hughes, Sir Anthony Philip Gilson; Ombersley, Anthony Hughes Lord Hughes of; Hughes, Anthony Philip Gilson, Lord Hughes of Ombersley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English lawyer and former United Kingdom Supreme Court Justice
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH St Albans , Hertfordshire