John Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd
Roger John Laugharne Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd PC ( born October 22, 1947 in Wales ) is the reigning Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
Youth and Education
Thomas is a son of Roger Edward Laugharne Thomas and his wife Dinah Agnes Thomas, from Cwmgiedd.
He went to Rugby School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he received a Bachelor of Arts. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall, 2004. He graduated then at the University of Chicago as a Juris Doctor and was Commonwealth Fellow.
He taught from 1965 to 1966 as an assistant teacher at the Mayo College in Ajmer, India.
Career
Thomas was sworn in before the 1969 Gray 's Inn. He was Attorney-General in 1984 (Queen 's Counsel ) and 1987 municipal judge (Recorder). He worked as a member of the Chambers of commercial matters (Commercial Chambers ) in the fourth Essex Court of The Temple, who moved in 1994 to Lincoln 's Inn Fields and Essex Court Chambers since then is called.
On behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry, he led in 1992 by an inspection of the Mirror Group Newspapers plc.
On January 11, 1996, he was appointed Judge of the High Court of Justice, and got the usual Knight Bachelor, and was a member of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, where he ( Commercial Court ) worked at the Commercial Court, until he Court of Appeal was appointed. On 14 July 2003, he was Lord Justice of Appeal and thus somewhat later a member of the Privy Council. He served from 2003 to 2006 as Senior Presiding Judge, and from 2008 to 2010 as President of the European Network of Justice Councils ( Councils for the Judiciary ).
In October 2008, Thomas was Vice President of the Queen's Bench Division and Deputy Head of Criminal Justice. On 3 October 2011 he was succeeded Sir Anthony May as President of the Queen's Bench Division.
On October 1, 2013 he was appointed as successor to Igor Judge, Baron Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. On September 26, 2013 it was announced that he would be recorded as a life peer in the House of Lords when he anträte his office as Lord Chief Justice. He was born on October 4, 2013 Life peer with the title Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd, of Cwmgiedd in the County of Powys. Immediately after his introduction, he was expelled as a member of the judiciary because of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 from participating in the meetings of the House of Lords.
Other activities
Thomas is one of the founding members of the European Law Institute, a nonprofit organization that performs with respect to the European legislation with the aim of better integrating legal research, makes recommendations and provides practical guidance.
He is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Universities of Cardiff, Aberystwyth, Swansea and Bangor, as well as an honorary doctorate in law at the University of Glamorgan, the University of the West of England and the University of Wales.
Family
He married in 1973 Elizabeth Ann Buchanan, a daughter of SJ Buchanan from Ohio, United States. He has with her a son and a daughter. As hobbies he calls in Who's Who gardening, walks and travel.