District Judge Appointment: Richards
The King has appointed Janine Richards to be a District Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Shabana Mahmood MP and the Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill.
The Lady Chief Justice has deployed her to the North Eastern Circuit, based at Teesside Combined Court Centre, with effect from 30 September 2024.
Janine Richards will be known as District Judge Richards. She was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1995. She was appointed as an Assistant Coroner and Deputy District Judge in 2022 and as a Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber in 2023.