Igor Judge, Baron Judge

Igor Judge, Baron Judge, of Draycote in the County of Warwickshire PC QC ( born May 19, 1941 in Malta ) is a British lawyer and former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.

Life

Judge was the son of Raymond and Rosa Judge, born Micallef was born. He attended from 1947 to 1954, the St. Edward 's College in Cottonera and 1954-1959 the The Oratory School in Woodcote in Oxfordshire, where he was head boy and captain of the cricket team. He studied from 1959 at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts. It was in 1963 member of the Bar of the Middle Temple.

In 1979 he became Attorney-General, elected chairman of the Crown Court Midland Circuit in 1987 and appointed in 1988 to the High Court of Justice (England and Wales). In 1996 he was a judge at the Court of Appeal and a member of the Privy Council.

In 2003 he was deputy Lord Chief Justice. When the Lord Chief Justice Harry Woolf 2005 retired, he was not his successor, but Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers. July 7, 2008 it was announced that Judge will succeed Phillips of Worth Matravers as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales on 1 October 2008. On October 1, 2013 Judges career ended as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales for reasons of age in accordance with legal provisions.

September 4, 2008 Judge was raised to the peer. On 1 October 2008 he received the title of Baron Judge of Draycote in the County of Warwickshire and was admitted to the House of Lords.

In 2007, Lord Judge was awarded an honorary doctorate from Nottingham Trent University.