Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond

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Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond , DBE , QC , PC , FBA (born January 31, 1945 in Yorkshire ) is a British legal scholar , barrister and former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom . In 2004 she entered the House of Lords as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary . She was the only woman who ever held this office. She served as Lord Judge until 2009 and then moved with the other Lord Judges to the new Supreme Court. She was the first woman on the Supreme Court and is the highest ranking female judge in the history of the British judiciary. From 2017 to 2020 she was President, previously from 2013 to 2017 Vice-President of the Supreme Court.

life and career

Hale was born in Yorkshire in 1945 as one of three daughters. Both parents became headmasters. Hale attended Richmond High School for Girls in Richmond and later studied at Girton College , where she graduated top of the class with her law degree.

In 1966 she became an Assistant Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester . Hale was in 1969 as a lawyer admitted in 1994 and was Bencher. In 1968 she became a lecturer and in 1976 senior lecturer . In 1981 she became a reader .

From 1978 to 1984 she was the Joint General Editor of the Journal of Social Welfare Law . Hale was a member of the Council of Tribunals from 1980 to 1984 .

Hale worked part-time as a barrister attorney for a long time after her admission , during which time she worked predominantly in the academic field for 18 years. After all, she was Professor of Law in Manchester from 1986 to 1989 . In 1984 she was the first woman to become the youngest member of the Law Commission . In the nine years she served on the commission, she oversaw and peer-reviewed a number of significant reforms in family law . In 1989 she became a crown attorney .

Legal career / membership in the House of Lords

Hale became Assistant Recorder, a part-time judge in 1989 and remained so until 1989. In 1994 she became a judge in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice . With her appointment, the usual elevation to the nobility as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) took place.

From 1990 to 1993 she was a member of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority . Since 1994 she has been President of the National Family Mediation, where she was Chairman from 1989 to 1993 . From 1997 to 1999 she was the liaison judge for the family area in London .

In 1999, after Elizabeth Butler-Sloss , Hale became the second woman on the Court of Appeal and at the same time a member of the Privy Council . From 2002 to 2003 she was Chair of the Management Committee at the Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau .

On January 12, 2004, she was appointed the first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and a Life Peer as Baroness Hale of Richmond, of Easby in the County of North Yorkshire , under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 . The official introduction to the House of Lords took place on January 12, 2004 with the assistance of Brian Flowers and Onora O'Neill .

She last took part in a vote on November 29, 2005. In the period from 2004 to 2009, Hale was only present very occasionally.

  • 2003/2004 session: 3 days
  • Session period 2004/2005: 3 days
  • 2005/2006 session: 3 days
  • 2006/2007 session: 1 day
  • Session period 2007/2008: 1 day
  • 2008/2009 session: 0 days

During her time as a judge on the Supreme Court, she had been excluded from participating in the House of Lords since 2009. In June 2013, she became Vice-President of the Supreme Court , succeeding David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead . In September 2017, she became President of the Court, succeeding David Edmond Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury . In January 2020, her service at the Supreme Court ended when she reached retirement age. She is the first and so far only woman to have held this office.

Family, miscellaneous

In 1968 she married Anthony Hoggett, a law professor at the University of Manchester , with whom she has a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1992.

In the same year she married Julian Farrand, a former law professor in Manchester and a colleague of hers on the Law Commission .

In November 2016, six months after the Brexit referendum , she said that this referendum was not legally binding on parliament, but was formally an “advisory” referendum. This statement met with wide public reception.

Further offices and honors

From 1997 to 2005 she was a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College of Oxford University . Hale is Chancellor of the University of Bristol and Visitor of Girton College, Cambridge , in this office she was elected of 2004. She was an Honorary Fellow at Girton College from 1996 to 2004 . She is a member of the Athenaeum Club .

Since 2008 she has been elected President of the International Association of Women Judges . From 1987 to 2002 she was Managing Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation .

She has several honorary doctorates . She received her Doctor of Laws (Hon LLD) from the University of Sheffield in 1989, from London Guildhall University in 1996 , from the University of Manchester in 1997 , from the University of Bristol in 2002 , from the University of Cambridge in 2005 and from the University of Hull in 2006 . They also honored King's College London , City University London , University of Oxford and the University of Reading in 2007, the College of Law, University of the West of England in 2008, the University of Huddersfield and the University of Sussex in 2009 and the University of Sussex in 2010 University of Salford and in 2011 the University of Glasgow with this title. In 2005 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex, Doctor of the University .

Hale became an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy in 2004 and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2007 .

Publications

  • Mental Health Law. 5th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuters, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-414-04169-1 .
  • Parents and Children. The law of parental responsibility, Sweet Maxwell, London 1993, ISBN 0421483202 .
  • The Family Law and Society - Cases and Materials, Oxford University Press, 1983, 6th edition 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-920424-3 (with DS Pearl )
  • Women and the Law, Robertson, Oxford 1984, ISBN 0855201819 (with S. Atkins )
  • From the Test-tube to the Coffin - Choice and Regulation in Private Life, Sweet & Maxwell, (The Hamlyn Lectures, 1996), ISBN 978-0-421-58270-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h The Guardian profile: Lady Brenda Hale portrait from January 9, 2004 on the occasion of her appointment as Lord Judge
  2. ^ The London Gazette : No. 57179, p. 503 , Jan. 15, 2004.
  3. ^ Baroness Hale of Richmond, excerpt from the minutes of the House of Lords meeting of January 15, 2004
  4. ^ House of Lords: Members 'expenses Members' expenses on the House of Lords website ; Retrieved November 28, 2012
  5. ↑ The London Gazette, No. 62054, p. 17466, September 19, 2017
  6. ↑ FAZ.net
personal data
SURNAME Hale, Brenda, Baroness Hale of Richmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hale, Brenda Majorie, Baroness Hale of Richmond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer, barrister and judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Yorkshire