Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge

Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge

Patrick Stewart Hodge, Lord Hodge , QC (born May 19, 1953 ) is a Scottish lawyer and Supreme Court Justice in the United Kingdom .

Education and professional activity

Hodge visited the boarding Croftinloan school and Glenalmond College and studied at Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University ( BA ) and at the Law School of the University of Edinburgh ( LL.B. ). He worked from 1975 to 1978 as a civil servant in the Scottish Office ; In 1983 he became a member of the Faculty of Advocates .

Legal career

In 1996, Hodge was appointed Crown Attorney . As such, it was mainly in the fields of commercial law , the Judicial Examination law and property law (property law) operates. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the Scottish Law Commission, a public law corporation with an advisory role to the Scottish Government ; from 2000 to 2005 he was a judge at the Appeals Court of Jersey and Guernsey and an authorized signatory of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (also an advisory officer Position). In 2005 he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Scotland , earning the courtesy title of Lord Hodge . There he held the position of Exchequer judge on the Session Court . On October 1, 2013, Hodge took over the position of Supreme Court Justice of the United Kingdom from Lord Hope of Craighead . Since January 2020 he has been Vice President of the Supreme Court.

family

Hodge has been married to Penelope Jane Wigin since 1983, with whom he has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Biographies - The Hon. Lord Hodge. Scottish Court Service, archived from the original on June 13, 2011 ; accessed on March 7, 2018 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Appointment of new judges. Scottish Government , February 2, 2005, accessed March 3, 2018 . 
3. ^ Trio of judicial appointments to the Supreme Court. | Supreme Court of the United Kingdom , February 26, 2013, accessed March 2, 2018 .