The Queen has appointed Helen Alison Gilbertson to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Robert Buckland QC MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon.
The Lord Chief Justice has deployed her to the South Eastern Circuit, based at Chelmsford County Court with effect from 07 September 2020.
Background information
Helen Alison Gilbertson, aged 50, will be known as Her Honour Judge Gilbertson. She was called to the Bar (M) in 1993. She was appointed as a Deputy District Judge in 2010 and as a District Judge in 2014.