LCJ and Heads of Division

Sir Julian Flaux was called to the Bar in 1978 and practised at the Commercial Bar from 1979 to 2007 specialising in disputes involving insurance and reinsurance, shipping, international trade and professional negligence. He was ...

Dame Kate Thirlwall was called to the Bar in 1982 and appointed as an Assistant Recorder of the Crown Court in 1998. She became a QC in 1999 and was appointed as a Recorder in ...

Sir Andrew McFarlane became the President of the Family Division on 28 July 2018. Sir Andrew was called to the Bar in 1977 and took Silk (Queen’s Counsel) in 1998. He was appointed a Recorder in ...

The Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon was born 28 February 1958. He studied  law at Pembroke College, Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1980, he became a pupil and then a member of ...