English judge (1941–2023)
Igor Judge, Baron Judge , KC , PC (19 May 1941 – 7 November 2023), was an English judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales , the head of the judiciary,[ 1] from 2008 to 2013. He was previously President of the Queen's Bench Division , at the time a newly created post assuming responsibilities transferred from the office of lord chief justice. From 2019 to 2023, he served as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers in the House of Lords .[ 2]
Early life and education
Judge was born in Malta on 19 May 1941,[ 3] to Raymond and Rosa Judge (née Micallef). Judge was educated at St. Edward's College, Malta , from 1947 to 1954 and The Oratory School in Woodcote in Oxfordshire from 1954 to 1959, where he was Captain of School and Captain of Cricket.[ 3] He was awarded an Open Exhibition to study History and Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge , in 1959, and he graduated BA in 1962.[ 3]
Legal career
Judge was called to the bar (Middle Temple ) in 1963 and became a Recorder in 1976 and Queen's Counsel in 1979.[ 3] From 1980 to 1986, he served on the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council . In 1987, he was elected Leader of the Midland Circuit. On 10 October 1988, Judge was appointed a Justice of the High Court ,[ 4] assigned to the Queen's Bench Division , and awarded the customary knighthood .[ 3] [ 5] He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal , a judge of the Court of Appeal , on 4 June 1996,[ 6] becoming a privy counsellor .[ 3]
Judge was the Senior Presiding Judge from 1998 to 2003,[ 3] when he became Deputy Chief Justice. He was not appointed Lord Chief Justice following the retirement of Lord Woolf in 2005 despite having served as his deputy; Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers , then Master of the Rolls , was appointed instead.[citation needed ]
On 3 October 2005, he was appointed the first President of the Queen's Bench Division ,[ 7] when that post was split from that of Lord Chief Justice. In addition to that role, Judge was appointed Head of Criminal Justice in January 2007.[ 8]
Judge replaced Lord Phillips as Lord Chief Justice on 1 October 2008.[ 9] The same day, he was created a life peer as Baron Judge, of Draycote in the County of Warwickshire ,[ 10] and he was introduced to the House of Lords five days later,[ 11] where he sat as a crossbencher .
In 2007 Lord Judge was awarded an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent University ,[ 12] and in 2010 was made an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University as well as Kingston University . On 20 June 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge.[ 13]
Judge retired as Lord Chief Justice at the end of September 2013.[ 14] He was Treasurer to the Middle Temple for the year 2014.[ 15]
From November 2013 until his death in November 2023, Judge served as a distinguished visitor to The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London .[ 16]
Parliament
Judge speaks from the crossbenches in 2021
Judge succeeded Lord Hope of Craighead as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers in 2019.[ 17]
Personal life and death
Judge had a son and two daughters.[ 18]
Judge died on 7 November 2023, at the age of 82.[ 19]
Arms
Coat of arms of Igor Judge, Baron Judge
Crest
A bear sejant erect Gules grasping with both forepaws a sword erect Argent hilt pommel and quillons Or.
Escutcheon
Quarterly Argent and Gules a cross couped nowy round pierced and parted counterchanged and enclosing a roundel Or.
Supporters
On either side a heraldic dolphin Argent finned Or and holding in the beak a scroll Argent tied and sealed Gules.
Motto
Sine Amore Nihil[ 20]
Badge
Two heraldic dolphins erect and addorsed Argent finned and crowned with an ancient crown Or.
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