Lord Mance

Former Justice

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Jonathan Hugh Mance, Lord Mance was appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court in September 2017. This following his original appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court in October 2009.

In October 2005, Lord Mance became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was from 1999 to 2005 a Lord Justice of Appeal and from 1993 to 1999 a Judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, where he also sat in the Commercial Court.

Lord Mance read law at University College, Oxford, spent time with a Hamburg law firm and then practised at the commercial bar and sat as a Recorder until 1993. He chaired various Banking Appeals Tribunals and was a founder director of the Bar Mutual Indemnity Insurance Fund.

He represented the United Kingdom on the Council of Europe's Consultative Council of European Judges from 2000 to 2011, being elected its first chair from 2000 to 2003. He currently chairs the Executive Council of the International Law Association and the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Private International Law. He is a member of the Judicial Integrity Group and of the seven person panel set up under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (article 255) to give an opinion on candidates' suitability to perform the duties of Judge and Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice and General Court.

He served from 2007 to 2009 on the House of Lords European Union Select Committee, chairing sub-committee E which scrutinises proposals concerning European law and institutions. In 2006 he chaired a working group under the auspices of the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region, recommending changes in the procedures for enforcement of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and in 2008 he led an international delegation for the same Group and the Swedish Foundation for Human Rights, reporting on the problems of impunity in relation to violence against women in the Congo.

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Justices

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Lord Reed

President of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon The Lord Reed of Allermuir

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Lord Hodge

Deputy President of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Hodge

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Lord Lloyd-Jones

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Lloyd-Jones

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Lord Briggs

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Briggs of Westbourne

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Lord Sales

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Sales

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Lord Hamblen

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Hamblen of Kersey

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Lord Leggatt

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Leggatt

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Lord Burrows

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Burrows

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Lord Stephens

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Stephens of Creevyloughgare

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Lady Rose

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lady Rose of Colmworth

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Lord Richards

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Richards of Camberwell

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Lady Simler

Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lady Simler