Data Codebook and Acronyms

Column explanations and acronyms


Biographical Data Page


Title if different from surname - Some judges take titles that are not the same as their surname - their title will be here


Mandatory Ret. Age - The age at which judges have to retire from full time positions is determined by their appointment date. For those appointed:

  • Up until 01/01/1960, there was no mandatory retirement age.

  • from 01/01/1960 to 31/03/1995, the mandatory retirement age was 75

  • from 31/03/1995, the mandatory retirement was 70


Reached Mandatory retirement age

  • Yes

  • No

  • NA - appointed before introduction, or due to lack of appointment date - check


Under Years of Retirement, DIO - Died in Office


Jurisdictional Acronyms

  • EWHC - High Court of England and Wales

    • K/QBD - King’s (as it was before Elizabeth II ascended to the throne) or Queen’s Bench Division

  • EWCA - Court of Appeal of England and Wales

  • CSOH - Outer House of the Court of Session

  • CSIH - Inner House of the Court of Session

  • NIHC - High Court of Northern Ireland

  • NICA - Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland

  • UKHL - Appellate Committee of the House of Lords

  • UKSC - United Kingdom Supreme Court


Public Data Page


Jurisdiction

  • EW - England and Wales

  • S - Scotland

  • NI - Northern Ireland

  • #N/A - appointed straight to the Appellate Committee or Supreme Court


Highest Court Reached

  • HC - High Court of England and Wales or Northern Ireland, or the Outer House of the Court of Session

  • CA - Court of Appeal of England and Wales or Northern Ireland, or the Inner House of the Court of Session

  • HL - Appellate Committee of the House of Lords

  • SC - Supreme Court of the United Kingdom



Codes


Public political

  • P- = parliament

    • -A = appointed post-retirement

      • Heather Hallett, for example

    • -SV = spoken/voted

      • Gathered from Hansard records

    • -C = committee member

      • Using the parliament.uk website for current/recent, collected from wider searching for older

    • -I = institutional role – committee chair, whip, party leadership

      • David Hope - Convenor of the XB peers

  • Media = general political commentary in media


  • Politico = controversial statements on issue - note

    • Johan Steyn - extremely critical of Blair government terror policies


Public legal

  • UK = further UK jurisdiction work

    • Continuing to sit in various positions after retirement as a full-time judge.

    • First instance and appellate work

    • Sitting as coroner

  • Non-UK = non-UK jurisdiction work

    • Included in this are the Courts of Jersey and Guernsey, Gibraltar, at various levels

  • For example, Murray Stuart-Smith - Justice of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda

  • Inquiry = public inquiry work

    • Martin Moore-Bick - Grenfell Inquiry Chair

  • Tribunal

    • The parole board

  • NS = national security oversight role

    • Hallett - Security Vetting Panel

    • Leveson - Investigatory Powers Commission


Private legal

  • A/M = Arbitration or mediation work – usually found on chambers websites

    • Peter Webster - mentioned in Telegraph Obit

  • IAC = International Arbitration Court membership

    • Anthony Colman - Dubai International Financial Centre Courts

  • Consultancy = legal consulting work, with a firm, chambers

    • David Calvert-Smith - Chambers website advertises his consulting services

  • Other

    • Robin Jacob stated on a podcast that "big new trade from just the last 5 years of mock trials of big cases, expert witness in foreign proceedings"


Private other

  • Exec = Executive board member of a business

  • Non-Exec = non-Executive board member work

    • Stephen Silber - Board member of Vannin Capital Investment committee


Non-fee paying

  • Legal Charity

    • Johan Steyn on the Board of JUSTICE

  • Other charity

    • William Mars-Jones - President of the London Welsh Trust

  • Legal group

    • Anthony Evans - member of the board of the British Maritime Law Association


Academia

  • Honorary = honorary professorship/fellowship

    • John Balcombe - Honorary Fellow of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Leadership = Chancellor/VC/College leader

    • Henry Fisher - President of Wolfson College Oxford

  • Contributor = writing! Journals, books

    • Stephen Sedley - regular contributor to legal journals and the LRB