Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond

Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, QC, PC, FBA ( born January 31, 1945 in Yorkshire ) is a British legal scholar, Barristerin and Judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. In 2004, she appeared as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in a House of Lords. She was the only woman who ever exercised this office. Until 2009 she worked as a Law Lord, when they moved to the new Supreme Court with the other Law Lords. As far the only woman on the Supreme Court, it is still the highest-ranking female judge in the history of British justice and since 2013, Vice-President of the Court.

Life and career

Hale was born in 1945 in Yorkshire as one of three daughters. Both parents were school principals. Hale visited the Richmond High School for Girls in Richmond and later studied at Girton College, where she completed her law studies as best in class.

In 1966 she was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester. Hale was admitted to the bar in 1969 and in 1994 was Bencher. She was a lecturer ( Lecturer ) and 1976 Senior Lecturer in 1968. In 1981, she was Reader.

From 1978 to 1984 she was joint General Editor of the Journal of Social Welfare Law. Hale was from 1980 to 1984 a member of the Council of Tribunals.

Hale has long been quite active lawyer after being admitted as a barrister in part-time, during which they mainly worked for 18 years in academia. She was, from 1986 to 1989 Professor of Law in Manchester. In 1984 she became the first woman appointed to the youngest member of the Law Commission. In the nine years of its Commission activities supervised and examined it a number of significant reforms in family law. In 1989 she was Kronanwältin.

Justice Career / membership in the House of Lords

Hale 1989 Assistant Recorder, a part-time judge and remained so until 1989. 1994 they judge at the Department of Family ( Family Division ) of the High Court of Justice. With her ​​appointment she also received the usual honor as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE ).

From 1990 to 1993 she was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authorithy. Since 1994 she has been President of the National Family Mediation, where she was 1989-1993 Chairman ( Chairman ). From 1997 to 1999 she was Liaison Judge for the family area in London.

1999 Hale was after Elizabeth Butler - Sloss is the second woman member of the Court of Appeal and at the same time a member of the Privy Council. From 2002 to 2003 she was Chair ( Chair ) of the Management Committee at the Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau.

On January 12, 2004, she was appointed the first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and Life peer as Baroness Hale of Richmond, of Easby in the County of North Yorkshire, was the official introduction to the House of Lords under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. on 12 January 2004 with the support of Brian Flowers and Onora O'Neill.

She took last November 29, 2005 participate in a vote.

  • Session 2003/2004: 3 days
  • Session 2004/2005: 3 days
  • Session 2005/2006: 3 days
  • Session 2006/2007: 1 day
  • Session 2007/2008: 1 day
  • Session 2008/2009: 0 days

In the period from 2004 to 2009 Hale had only very occasionally present. Since her appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court 2009, it is excluded from participation in the Upper House. In June 2013, it was the successor of David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead Vice-President of the Supreme Court.

Family

In 1968, she married Anthony Hoggett, a law lecturer at the University of Manchester, with whom she has a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1992.

In the same year she married Julian Farrand, a former law professor at Manchester and colleague of hers in the Law Commission.

Other offices and honors

From 1997 to 2005 she was a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University. Hale is Chancellor of the University of Bristol and Visitor of Girton College, in this office she was elected in 2004. At Girton College from 1996 to 2004 she was an Honorary Fellow. She is a member of the Athenaeum Club.

Since 2008 she has been elected President of the International Association of Women Judges. From 1987 to 2002, she was the Managing Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation.

She has received several honorary doctorates. In 1989 she was a Doctor of Laws ( Hon LLD) from the University of Sheffield, 1996 by the London Guildhall University in 1997 from the University of Manchester, in 2002 by the University of Bristol, 2005 by the University of Cambridge in 2006 from the University of Hull. They also honored in 2007, King's College London, City University London, University of Oxford and the University of Reading, and in 2008 the College of Law, University of the West of England, 2009, the University of Huddersfield and the University of Sussex, and in 2010 the University of Salford and the University of Glasgow in 2011 with this title. In 2005 she received an honorary doctorate degree Doctor of the University from the University of Essex.

Hale was 2004 Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and in 2007 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Publications

  • Mental Health Law, Sweet & Maxwell, 1976, 5th edition, 2010, ISBN 978-0-414-04169-1
  • Parents and Children, publisher unknown, (1977, 4th edition 1993), ISBN unknown
  • The Family Law and Society - Cases and Materials, Oxford University Press, 1983, 6th edition 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-920424-3 ( with DS Pearl)
  • Women and the Law, publisher unknown, 1984, ISBN unknown ( with S. Atkins )
  • From the test tube to the Coffin - Choice and Regulation in Private Life, Sweet & Maxwell, (The Hamlyn Lectures, 1996), ISBN 978-0-421-58270-5
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