Retirement of The Right Honourable Sir Keith John Lindblom, Senior President of Tribunals
The Right Honourable Sir Keith John Lindblom retires as the Senior President of Tribunals and Lord Justice of Appeal with effect from 1 August 2025.
Background information
The Rt. Hon Sir Keith John Lindblom was called to the Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1980, took silk in 1996 and was admitted to the Hong Kong Bar in 2000. He was elected as a Bencher in 2003 and became a Member of the Turks and Caicos Islands Bar in 2006. He was appointed an Assistant Parliamentary Boundary Commissioner in 2000, a Recorder in 2001 and authorised to sit as a High Court Judge in 2009 pursuant to the Senior Courts Act in 1981.
Sir Keith was appointed as a High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) in 2010. In January 2013 he was appointed President of the Upper Tribunal Lands Chamber and in April 2014 he was appointed as lead judge of the Planning Court.
He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in November 2015 and a Privy Counsellor in 2016.
Sir Keith was appointed as Vice-Senior President of Tribunals on 23 March 2018 and as Senior President of Tribunals on 19 September 2020.
In 2021 Sir Keith was appointed to serve as a Judge of the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved and President of the UK Environmental Law Association. He was appointed President of the Planning and Environmental Bar Association in 2022.