Robert Reed, Lord Reed
Robert John Reed, Lord Reed PC QC (born September 7, 1956 ) is a British lawyer and a Supreme Court Justice of the United Kingdom since 2012 . He has been Vice President of the Court since 2018 and has been its President since 2020.
Life
Attorney and Government Service
Reed graduated after the visit of George Watson's College in Edinburgh to study law at the University of Edinburgh and at Balliol College of University of Oxford , where he in 1982 a Ph.D. with a work published under the title Legal control of government assistance to industry on the legal and statutory possibilities of economic development . He was then admitted to the Bar of Scotland ( Faculty of Advocates ) in July 1983 and then took up a position as a lawyer .
In the following years he mainly dealt with Civil Law, before he joined the government service in 1988 and initially employed legal advisor to the Education Department of the Scotland-Minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland belonging) Scotland Office ( Scottish Office ) was. He then moved in 1989 as Permanent legal adviser in the Department of the Interior and Health of the Scottish Office and was for his lawyer's services in 1995 to Attorney General ( Queen's Counsel appointed). In 1996 he moved to the Scottish Public Prosecutor's Service ( Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service ), for which he served as an Advocate Depute before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland until 1998 .
Senator of the College of Justice
In 1998, Reed was named Lord Reed Judge of the High Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary, with the courtesy title of Lord Reed , and was also Senator of the College of Justice , which consists of the three highest courts of Scotland. At times he was also an ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), for example in the appeal proceedings in the murder of James Bulger in 1999, and as an expert in European law, he was also an advisor to the European Union and the Council of Europe on issues relating to relations with Turkey .
As a judge of the so-called “Outer House” of the Court of Session, he acted between 2006 and 2008 as presiding judge of the Chamber of Commercial Law ( Principal Commercial Judge ). Subsequently, in 2008 he was appointed judge of the so-called "Inner House", which acts as a court of appeal for appeal proceedings from the "Outer House" of the Court of Session, but also from the Sheriff Courts , the Court of the Lord Lyon , the Scottish Land Court and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.
Supreme Court Justice of the United Kingdom
Lord Reed, who also became Privy Councilor in 2008 , has served with Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony during the illness-related absences of Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, as acting judge of the United Kingdom Supreme Court.
After the death of Baron Rodger of Earlsferry on June 26, 2011, it was announced on December 20, 2011 that Reed had been nominated to succeed him as Supreme Court Justice. The appointment had already been speculated due to the previous representation situation. Reed, who officially took office on February 6, 2012, is by far the youngest judge on the Supreme Court and is expected to hold that office until his seventieth birthday on September 7, 2026. Lord Reed then took over the second judgment seat reserved for a Scottish judge alongside David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead , then Vice-President of the Supreme Court. He was Vice-President from 2018 to 2020 and has been President of the Supreme Court since January 2020, succeeding Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond .
Fonts
- Legal control of government assistance to industry , 1982
Web links
- Biography (Judiciary of Scotland) ( Memento from December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry on the homepage of Balliol College
- Supreme Court Appointments ( 10 Downing Street press release, December 20, 2011)
- Profile on the Supreme Court blog
Individual evidence
- ↑ Proof of publication
- ↑ Who will be the two new supreme court judges? The time has come to judge who are the best candidates for the job - and there are a few prominent frontrunners . In: The Guardian of July 27, 2011
- ^ Appointment of Reed and Carnwath judicious - even though both are male. Adept tribunals reformer and keen musician Lord Justice Carnwath is rewarded with promotion to the supreme court . In: The Guardian of December 20, 2011
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Reed, Robert, Lord Reed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reed, Robert John, Lord Reed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1956 |