Lawrence Collins

Lawrence Antony Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, PC, FBA (born May 7th 1941), is a British judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Political Career

As a former Justice of the Supreme Court, Baron Collins sits as a non-affiliated member of the House of Lords. On April 21st 2009, he was made Baron Collins of Mapesbury, of Hampstead Town in the London Borough of Camden, and was introduced in the House of Lords on April 28th 2009. On 1 October 2009, he and nine other Lords of Appeal became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration.

Education

He was educated at the City of London School, and then at Downing College, Cambridge, graduating with a starred first in Law. He received an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School in New York .

Notable Work

In 1997, he was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge, becoming a full-time Judge in the Chancery Division on September 28th 2000, at which time he left Herbert Smith. He was the first solicitor to be appointed as a judge of the High Court direct from private practice, and only the second solicitor to be appointed, after Sir Michael Sachs in 1993, who had previously sat as a circuit judge for nine years.

His appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal (judge of the Court of Appeal) was announced on 11 January 2007, and he was sworn to the Privy Council a month later. On April 8th 2009, it was announced that he would replace Lord Hoffmann (who retired on April 20th 2009) as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He is the first solicitor to be appointed to these senior levels of the judiciary.

He's considered to be on the staff of University College London.


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