David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead

David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, 2013

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead , KT , PC , QC (born June 27, 1938 ) is a Scottish lawyer and was Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2013 .

family

Hope was born the son of the Edinburgh lawyer Arthur Henry Cecil Hope and his wife Muriel Ann Neilson Collie and thus belongs to the noble line of the Marquess of Linlithgow . He married Katharine Mary Kerr in 1966 with whom he has three children.

Education and professional activity

Hope received his education at Edinburgh Academy and Rugby School . After his military service from 1957 to 1959, which he completed with the Seaforth Highlanders and from which he resigned as first lieutenant , Hope began his law studies at St. John's College , Cambridge, which he graduated in 1962. This was followed by further studies at the University of Edinburgh . After graduating, he was admitted to the bar in 1965. In 1974 Hope entered the civil service and represented the British Crown in financial disputes. In 1978 Elizabeth II appointed him Crown Attorney. In 1985/1986 Hope sat both the Medical Appeal Tribunal and the Pension Appeal Tribunal and was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1986 to 1989 .

Activity as a judge

In 1989 Hope was appointed Justice to the Supreme Court of Scotland . He immediately assumed the office of Presiding Judge of the Court of Session and Chief Justice of Scotland. In 1995 he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Hope of Craighead , of Banff in the District of Perth and Kinross . In 1996 he assumed the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary to take up office on October 1, 2009 as one of the first justices of the UK Supreme Court. There he was Deputy President until the end of his term on June 27, 2013.

Awards

• Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde (1998–)
• Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh (1991, 1995)
• Honorary Member of the Canadian Bar Association (1987)
• Honorary Member of Gray's Inn (1989)
• Knight Companion of the Thistle Order (2009)

Publications (selection)

• The Rule of Law Legacy of the House of Lords' Pinochet Judgments. In: The International Lawyer. Vol. 43, No. 1, 2009, ISSN  0020-7810 , pp. 45-50
• James McGhee. A Second Mrs. Donoghue ?. In: The Cambridge Law Journal. Vol. 62, No. 3, 2003, ISSN  0008-1973 , pp. 587-604

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charles Mosley (ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Clan Chiefs, Scottish feudal Barons. 107th edition. Boydell & Brewer Inc, Stokesley 2003, ISBN 0971196621 (Vol III), p. 2355
2. ↑ Short biography on the homepage of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ ^{A b} Charles Mosley (ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Clan Chiefs, Scottish feudal Barons. 107th edition. Boydell & Brewer Inc, Stokesley 2003, ISBN 0971196621 (Vol III), p. 1961
4. ↑ London Gazette Iss. 47612, August 8, 1978 p. 9503

Web links

• Biography on the Supreme Court website (English, with picture)
• Short biography on the homepage of the University of Strathclyde