Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill
Robert John Anderson Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill CVO PC QC ( born March 15, 1945) is a British lawyer and since 2012 Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Life
Lawyer and Attorney General of Prince of Wales
After attending Eton College Carnwath graduated in law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. After he had in 1968 received his legal approval to the Chamber of Lawyers ( Inns of Court ) of the Middle Temple, he began working as a barrister and dealt mainly with municipal, planning and environmental law in the following years. As a member of the law firm of Landmark Chambers, he also dealt with administrative law and was for a time chairman of the Association of the government lawyers ( Administrative Bar Association).
After twelve years of legal work Carnwath changed in 1980 in the government service and was until 1985 Legal adviser to the tax authority ( Inland Revenue ). In 1985, he was (Queen 's Counsel ) appointed for his lawyer's services to the Attorney-General and then worked again as a lawyer before he ( Attorney General ) in the Prince of Wales in 1988 Attorney General. This function held Carnwath, who also Companion of the Royal Victorian Order in 1988 until 1994. During this time he wrote on behalf of the Ministry of Environment named after him Carnwath report on the implementation of planning controls that went largely into the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 thus paving the way for a fundamental reform of the planning approval process paved.
Ascent to Supreme Court
1994 Carnwath was appointed judge in the Chamber for Economic Affairs ( Chancery Division ) to the Commissioner for England and Wales High Court of Justice called and held this office of judge until 2001. At the same time he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1994 and thus led henceforth the additional name "Sir". He most recently served as the successor to Mary Arden between 1998 and his replacement by Roger Toulson 2001, Chairman of the Law Commission of England and Wales, which deals with the reform of English and Welsh law.
After completion of the judges work at High Court of Justice was on 15 January 2002 his appeal to the judge ( Lord Justice of Appeal ) at the Court of Appeal, which is responsible for England and Wales Court of Appeal. In addition, he was also appointed Privy Councillor in 2002. During this time he served between 2004 and 2005 as Secretary General of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment, after he had been engaged since 2002 in a global working group of legal experts to develop a program to improve the understanding and practice in environmental issues. In addition, since 2006 he is President of the UK Environmental Law Association and co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Law.
At the suggestion of Lord Chancellor Jack Straw Carnwath was appointed as the first Senior President of Tribunals by Queen Elizabeth II on 12 November 2007. Because of this after the Tribunal, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 he was involved in the aftermath of the reform of the tribunals and courts in England and Wales.
After the end of the tenure of Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton -under- Heywood 9 April 2012 Carnwath was April 17, 2012, his successor as a judge on the United Kingdom Supreme Court. At the same time he was granted for life the courtesy title of Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill. As he held a judicial office before 31 March 1995, his official term as judge until his 75th birthday on 15 March 2020.
In June 2012, Lord Carnwath was among the participants of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.