Trustees
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
Sir Peter Gross was called to the Bar in 1977. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1992, appointed a Recorder in 1995 and a Deputy High Court judge in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed to High Court and served as presiding judge on the South East Circuit from 2004 to 2004, and headed the Commercial Court from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal and was appointed to the Privy Council in 2011. He became Deputy Senior Presiding Judge on 3 October 2011, and was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015.
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He was appointed Lead Judge for International Relations in January 2018, a post he held until his retirement in October 2019 and has undertaken many judicial visits abroad (including Jamaica, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, USA, Argentina, Jordan, Brunei, Singapore and Uzbekistan).
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He is currently co-chair of the International Working Group on Case Management of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).
The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Irwin (Chairman)
Sir Stephen Irwin was called to the bar at Gray’s Inn in 1976 and he was a founder member of Doughty Street Chambers. He took silk in 1997, was Chairman of the Bar in 2004, became a High Court judge in 2006 and sat in the Court of Appeal from 2016 to 2020. He served as Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit and Chairman of SIAC. He was the supervising Lord Justice for extradition cases, and cases involving national security. He served as Treasurer of Gray’s Inn for 2020. In November 2020 he was appointed by resolution of the House of Commons to chair a new panel hearing serious disciplinary cases and appeals involving Members of Parliament.
Lady Rose of Colmworth (President)
Dame Vivien Rose, Lady Rose became a Justice of the Supreme Court on 19 April 2021. She was called to the Bar in 1984 and was in private practice for ten years specialising in domestic and EU competition law. In 1995 she joined the Government Legal Service serving as a legal adviser on financial services at HM Treasury until 2001. In 2002 she was appointed to the Senior Civil Service and moved to the Ministry of Defence as Director of Operational and International Humanitarian Law. From 2005 to 2008 she advised in the Office of Counsel to the Speaker of the House of Commons. In 2006 she was appointed to her first judicial role as a fee-paid Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. She became a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division in 2013 and was President of the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) between 2015 and 2018. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal in January 2019.
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Mr Stephen J Lewis (Hon Sec and Treasurer)
Stephen Lewis is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. At Clifford Chance, he specialises in forensic accounting and regulatory investigations across a number of industries and has given evidence to courts and tribunals in a number of jurisdictions.
Mr Julian Acratopulo
Julian Acratopulo is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group in London where he advises on a broad range of contentious, regulatory and reputation management issues often on a cross border basis. As part of its pro bono activities, Clifford Chance is committed to promoting access to justice internationally, including through its support of the Slynn Foundation.
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The Rt. Hon Sir David Bean
David Bean was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1976, appointed a QC in 1997 and elected Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales in 2002.
He was appointed a High Court judge (Queen’s Bench Division) in 2004 and promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2014. He was Chair of the Law Commission of England and Wales from 2015-18 and Treasurer (non-executive president) of Middle Temple in 2019. He is currently the judge supervising the Judicial Assistants scheme in the Court of Appeal.
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The Hon Sir Nicholas Blake
Sir Nicholas Blake is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was made a QC in 1994 and was a founding member of Matrix Chambers. He was appointed as a special advocate and as a Deputy High Court judge in 2002 and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division) in 2007. From 2010 to 2013 he was President of Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and from 2014 to May 2017 he represented the judiciary of England and Wales on the International Association of Judges and its regional affiliate the European Association of Judges.
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Ms Merethe Borge MacLeod
Merethe brings decades of experience implementing rule of law, human rights and legal reform programmes for the UN, INGOs and bilateral organisations. Merethe is currently the Executive Director of the Great Britain China Centre, a non-departmental public body of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office established in 1974 to support UK-China relations. She spent ten years in Beijing, working for the UNDP and also as the China Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In addition to her work in China, Merethe has worked for the UNDP in Sudan and also for non-profits in China and in the UK.
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Mr Ian Cameron Cliff CMG, OBE
Ian Cliff is a recently retired British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador in five posts: to Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001 – 2005), to the Sudan (2005 – 2007), to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Vienna (2007 – 2011), to Kosovo (2011 – 2015), and to Croatia (2015 – 2016). Throughout his career he has been involved in programmes to support the Rule of Law.
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The Hon. Mrs Justice Cockerill DBE
Mrs Justice Cockerill was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1990 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2011. She practiced at the Commercial Bar from 1991 to 2017, gaining wide experience in international commercial law and is also the author of “Compelled Evidence in Civil Proceedings” (2012 OUP). She was appointed a High Court Judge in 2017, assigned to the King’s Bench Division. She sits in the Commercial Court, Technology and Construction Court, Financial List, Competition Appeal Tribunal, and across the range of King’s Bench work including Administrative Court and in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. She is also authorised to sit in the Chancery Division. She served as Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court 2020-2022. She is a member of the Lady Chief Justice’s Transparency and Open Justice Board.
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Mr Roger Coventry CMG
Roger has lived and worked as a Justice Development and Rule of Law Adviser in Afghanistan (two years to August 2021), Pakistan (two and a half years) and Ghana (four years). He is currently working with the Judiciary in Lebanon.
In Afghanistan he assisted in setting up the liaison between UK women judges and Afghan women judges. He was closely involved in support for the
evacuation of judges, prosecutors and others in and following August 2021.
He is a co-founder and trustee of the UK registered charity LAW–G (the Legal
Afghan Working Group). He continues to support Afghan judges and lawyers in the UK and those who are still in Afghanistan or third countries.
Roger has sat as a Judge of the higher courts in three Commonwealth
jurisdictions in the Pacific for a total of eight years. He undertook Pacific wide
consultancies for the Pacific Islands Forum.
He worked with the Crown Prosecution Service for a for a total of fourteen years, in particular prosecuting cases of serious organised crime and child abuse. Roger first practised at the Bar in London for ten years.
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​The Rt. Hon. Lady Dorrian
Lady Dorrian was installed as Lord Justice Clerk and President of the Second Division of the Court of Session in April 2016. As Lord Justice Clerk she is Chair of the Scottish Sentencing Council. She was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Courts in 2005, having served as a Temporary Judge since 2002. She was appointed to the Inner House in November 2012.
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Lady Dorrian is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen (LLB). She was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1981 and was Standing Junior Counsel to the Health and Safety Executive and Commission between 1987 and 1994.
Lady Dorrian served as Advocate Depute between 1988 and 1991, and as Standing Junior to the Department of Energy between 1991 and 1994. Lady Dorrian was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1994. Between 1997 and 2001 she was a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.
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Lady Dorrian is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Ms Claire Lindley
Claire Lindley was called to the Bar in 1987 and became a Bencher of Grays Inn in 2014. Until April 2022, she was a senior civil servant and worked in the Crown Prosecution Service for over 35 years. Claire has been the Chief Crown Prosecutor of a number of CPS Areas leading large legal teams and overseeing high profile prosecutions. Claire was the lead figure in a BBC documentary series “The Prosecutors,” which was shortlisted for a BAFTA Award in 2014. She has now retired from the CPS and is conducting regulatory work. She is a member of the Independent Decision Making Panel of the Bar Standards Board and has become a Legally Qualified Chair of the Medical Practitioner Tribunal service.
The Hon Dame Maura McGowan
Dame Maura McGowan was appointed a High Court Judge in 2014 and sits in the Queen’s Bench Division and was a Presiding Judge on the South Eastern Circuit 2016 until 2019. As a junior, she specialised in criminal work at 2 Bedford Row in London and Lincoln House Chambers in Manchester and practised predominantly on the South Eastern Circuit. She took Silk in 2001 and was Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales in 2013. She is an Advanced International Advocacy Trainer and has taught and lectured in many jurisdictions; she is involved in international judicial training in Uganda, Mexico and (with AdvocAid) in Sierra Leone.
Sir Howard Morrison KCMG, CBE, KC
Sir Howard Morrison was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1977. He practised criminal, civil and family law until 1986, dividing his criminal law practice between prosecuting and defending, when he took up a post as Resident Magistrate and subsequently Chief Magistrate of Fiji 1986-1988 and then Attorney General for Anguilla 1988-9 to get anti-drug legislation through the island Parliament, he was also called to the Bars of Fiji and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. He also served as a TAVR infantry officer.
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He served in Iraq in 2005-6 training newly independent Iraqi judges. He was selected as a Senior Judge of the Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus in 2008 and a Judge of the Special Tribunal for the Lebanon and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2009 in both trial and appellate roles.
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He was appointed in turn, OBE, CBE and KCMG by HM Queen Elizabeth and is a Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre of Cambridge University, Hon Professor of Law at Leicester University and Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and has been a visiting lecturer at some 25 universities in the UK, Holland, Italy, Australia, the USA, China and the Middle East.
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Professor David Ormerod CBE KC (Hon) DCL(Hon)
David Ormerod is the Professor Criminal Justice at University College, London. He has been an academic lawyer for over 30 years. He has published widely on all aspects of criminal law, evidence and procedure. From 2010-2019 he was the Criminal Law Commissioner for England and Wales leading on all the criminal law reform projects.
In addition to many journal articles and book chapters, he has authored since 2005, and now co-authors, Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law. He was, between 2012 and 2023, the Editor of the Criminal Law Review and before that its cases editor and commentator in which role, since 1996, he has produced hundreds of comments on recent cases and developments. He has been Editor in Chief of Blackstone’s Criminal Practice since 2008. He has also been the consultant editor for Halsbury’s Laws of England on criminal law, evidence and procedure since 2010.
He is a barrister, a Bencher of Middle Temple, serving as Reader of the Inn in 2022, and has been involved in education there for many years. He is also a Bencher of the Inns of Court of Northern Ireland where he has frequently provided training. David has provided numerous lectures and seminars for the legal profession and was, for 17 years, a member of the Education Committee of the Criminal Bar Association. He was made a life member of the CBA in recognition of his service.
David has been involved in delivering training for the Judicial College on criminal courses for almost 20 years. He has lectured on many topics to judges ranging from new Recorders to the those sitting in the Court of Appeal. In 2016 he was one of a team of four responsible for drafting the Judicial College – Crown Court Compendium and he continues to act as an editor in relation to ongoing updates. This is a manual used daily in every Crown Court in England and Wales.
In 2013 he was appointed QC (Honoris Causa). In 2018 he was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in the King’s Bench Division. In 2021 he was appointed a CBE in the New Years’ Honours in recognition of his service to the criminal justice system. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law by Northumbria University in recognition of his academic work.
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The Hon. Mrs Justice Theis DBE
Mrs Justice Theis was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1982, was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2003 and between 2005 – 2010 was Head of Field Court Chambers, Gray’s Inn. She practiced at the Family Bar and was Chair of the Family Law Bar Association between 2008 – 2009. In 2010 she was appointed a High Court Judge, assigned to the Family Division where she sits hearing the full range of Family Division work. Between 2011 – 2018 she was a Family Division Liaison Judge on the South East Circuit and was the Senior Family Liaison Judge between 2018 – 2023. From 2018 – 2023 she was Deputy Chair of the Family Justice Council and the Family Procedure Rule Committee. In February 2023 she was appointed the Vice President of the Court of Protection
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Simon Smith CMG
Simon Smith was from 2007-2012 British Ambassador to Austria, and UK representative to many UN and international organisations in Vienna, including as the UK's Governor on the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He was subsequently Ambassador to Ukraine (2012-2015) and to South Korea (2018-2022). Advocating structural and systemic reforms in the countries and institutions in which he has worked was a regular feature in his roles throughout a 35 year career in the British Diplomatic Service - which also included assignments to Tokyo and Moscow. He now chairs the Ukraine Forum Steering Committee at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).
The Rt Hon James Wolffe KC
James Wolffe is an advocate (Scotland) and barrister (England & Wales). He was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, the elected leader of the Scottish bar 2014-16. As Lord Advocate from 2016 until 2021, James was the senior Scottish Law Officer and head of the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of deaths in Scotland. He has represented the profession internationally as Head of the UK Delegation to the Council of European Bars and Law Societies 2013-15 and Joint Chair of the International Council of Advocates and Barristers 2014-16. He is a Bencher of Middle Temple and has been appointed a judge of the Courts of Appeal of Guernsey and Jersey.
Mr Ben Yallop JP
Ben has worked within the justice system since 2003. During a career dedicated to public service Ben has developed a reputation as one of the UK’s leading justice sector advisers, with particular expertise in judicial leadership, court administration and international relations. He has provided extensive advice to judiciaries and Chief Justices across the world. As Head of International for the judiciary, Ben was the lead official during the creation of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts and also supported very many outgoing and incoming high-level visits, engaging directly with over 130 jurisdictions worldwide. Ben was subsequently the longest-serving Principal Private Secretary to the Lord and then Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales. He is now Assistant Director at the UK Supreme Court, and a Magistrate sitting in crime.
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Honorary Members
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In 2023, Trustees retiring from the Slynn Board were invited to become Honorary Members of the Foundation. Slynn would like to thank them for their long service and is grateful for their continued contribution to the Foundation through their advice and experience.
The new honorary members are (in alphabetical order):
Sir Stanley Burnton
The Rt Hon Dame Nicola Davies
Sir James Dingemans
Sir Peter Gross
Sir David Latham
Amanda Pinto KC
Fergus Randolph KC
Sir Geoffrey Vos
Mr Peter Williamson
