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