Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury

Career Highlights

• • He served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2017.
• • He was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary until the House of Lords' judicial functions were transferred to the new Supreme Court in 2009, at which point he became Master of the Rolls, the second most senior judge in England and Wales.
• • Neuberger was appointed to the Supreme Court, as its President, in 2012.
• • He now serves as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and formerly served as the Chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.
• • He was appointed to the Singapore International Commercial Court in 2018.
• • Neuberger was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1974, where he became a Bencher in 1993.
• • He became a Queen's Counsel in 1987.
• • He was a Recorder from 1990 to 1 October 1996, when he was appointed a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division and received the customary knighthood.
• • In 2001, he was made Supervisory Chancery Judge of Midland, Wales and Chester, and of the Western Circuits, a post he held until 12 January 2004, when he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal and a member of the Privy Council.
• • It was announced on 23 July 2009 that he would be appointed the next Master of the Rolls, succeeding Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, who became one of the inaugural Justices of the Supreme Court on the retirement of Lord Scott of Foscote.
• • In 2018 he was appointed to the Singapore International Commercial Court for a period of three years from 5 January 2018.
• • He has been reappointed and serves currently as at August 2024.
• • On 18 May 2020 he was appointed as Deputy President of The Academy of Experts and replaced Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate as President in late 2020.

Education

• • studied chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford
• • received much negative publicity, as did the subsequent evidence of Lord Grabiner about it
• • awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• • Master of the Rolls, the second most senior judge in England and Wales
• • Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1974, where he became a Bencher in 1993
• • Master of the Rolls, succeeding Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, who became one of the inaugural Justices of the Supreme Court on the retirement of Lord Scott of Foscote
• • Bar Council into widening access to the Bar
• • Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)
• • University of London, and his wife, Lilian
• • University of Birmingham, Michael Neuberger was Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Cambridge, while Anthony Neuberger is Professor in Finance at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
• • University of Sussex, and of Mental Health Research UK
• • University of the Arts London between 2000 and 2010
• • University the Freshfields annual lecture, which he entitled "The British and Europe"

Practice Areas (from the 39-area taxonomy)

Citation influence

6 of Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury's authored judgments have been cited by later Hong Kong judgments, 27 times in total, per HKLII citation records.

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