David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, KT, PC, QC (* June 27, 1938 ) is a Scottish lawyer and was from 2009 to 2013 vice- president of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Family

Hope was born the son of originating from Edinburgh lawyer Arthur Henry Cecil Hope and his wife Muriel Ann Neilson Collie and thus belongs to the noble line of the Marquess of Linlithgow. He married in 1966 Mary Katharine Kerr with whom he has three children.

Education and professional experience

His school education was Hope at Edinburgh Academy and the Rugby School. After his 1957-1959 permanent military service, he graduated at the Seaforth Highlanders, and from which he retired as a lieutenant, took Hope his study of law at St. John's College, Cambridge, on which he completed in 1962. This is followed by a further study joined at the University of Edinburgh. After his graduation, he was admitted to the bar in 1965. 1974 Hope joined the civil service and represented the British Crown in financial disputes. 1978 Elizabeth II appointed him to the Attorney-General. 1985/1986 Hope sat in front of both the Medical Appeal Tribunal and the Pension Appeal Tribunal and was from 1986 to 1989 Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

Activity as a judge

Hope 1989 was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Scotland. He immediately took over the office of the presiding judge at the Court of Session and the Chief Justice of Scotland. In 1995, he was raised as Baron Hope of Craighead, of Banff in the District of Perth and Kinross in the peerage. In 1996 he took over the office of a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary to October 1, 2009 as one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to take the job. There he was, until the end of his term of office on June 27, 2013 Vice President.

Awards

  • Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde (1998 -)
  • Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh ( 1991, 1995 )
  • Honorary Member of the Canadian Bar Association ( 1987)
  • Honorary Member of Gray 's Inn (1989 )
  • Scottish Order of the Thistle (2009)

Publications (selection )

  • The Rule of Law Legacy of the House of Lords ' Pinochet Judgments. In: The International Lawyer. Vol 43, No 1, 2009, ISSN 0020-7810, pp. 45-50
  • James McGhee. A Second Mrs. Donoghue? . In: The Cambridge Law Journal. Vol 62, No. 3, 2003, ISSN 0008-1973, pp. 587-604
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