Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers

Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers

Coat of arms of the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers

Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers , KG , Kt , PC , QC (born January 21, 1938 ) is a British lawyer , former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and presiding judge of the Qatar International Court since October 1, 2012 . He was Master of the Rolls from 2000 to 2005 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2005 to October 1, 2008 .

education

Phillips received his education at the Bryanston School, where he is still active in the Association of Alumni. This was followed by military service in the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1958 , from which he resigned as an officer. He studied law at King's College, Cambridge University and was admitted to the Middle Temple barrister in 1962 . In 1973 he entered the civil service and initially worked as a junior counsel at the Ministry of Defense, where he primarily dealt with questions of maritime law. In 1978, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him crown attorney.

Activity as a judge

His practice as a judge began Phillips as a district judge in 1982, before he was appointed judge of the Queen's Bench Division in 1987, combined with the elevation to the Knight Bachelor . On a part-time basis, Phillips was involved in the training of young lawyers and was chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE) from 1992 to 1997 . In 1995 he was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal and has since been a member of the Privy Council and, since 1998, of the House of Lords as Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers , of Belsize Park in the London Borough of Camden . On October 1, 2000, he succeeded Baron Woolf as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He held this office until he assumed the presidency of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on October 1, 2009. On September 30, 2012, he retired from the United Kingdom Supreme Court Justice and became Presiding Judge at the Qatar International Court in Doha . In March 2012, he was appointed as assistant judge to the Court of FInal Appeal of Hong Kong .

family

Phillips is married to Christylle Marie-Thérèse Rouffiac, with whom he has two daughters. In addition, his wife brought a son and a daughter into the marriage. The couple live in the London borough of Hampstead .

Awards and memberships

• Member of the Brooks and Garrick Club
• Guild Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers and the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights
• Honorary doctorates from the University of Exeter (1998), the University of Birmingham (2003) and the University of London (2004)
• Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (April 23, 2011)

Publications (selection)

• My predecessors in title: being the presidential address of Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, President of the Holdsworth Club of the School of Law in the University of Birmingham, 2001-2002 . Holdsworth Club of the University of Birmingham, Birmingham 2002, ISBN 978-0-7044-2400-5 .

• The BSE inquiry: return to an order of the Honorable House of Commons dated October 2000 for the report, evidence and supporting papers of the inquiry into the emergence and identification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) and the action taken in response to it , 16 volumes. Stationery Office Books, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-10-556986-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Charles Mosley (ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Clan Chiefs, Scottish feudal Barons. 107th edition. Boydell & Brewer Inc, Stokesley 2003, ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 (Vol III), p. 3131
2. ↑ Article by Lord Phillips in International Review of Law 2012: 3
3. ↑ London Gazette

Web links

• Biography on the Supreme Court website (English, with picture)
• Clare Dyer: He pointed a finger where it ought to be pointed. He didn't go over the top ... He has shown himself to be politic , The Guardian , September 23, 2005.