Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

Simon Denis Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton -under- Heywood, PC, QC ( born April 9, 1937) is a British lawyer and former judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

Life and career

From 1955 to 1957 he did his military service in the Royal Artillery, where he reached the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. He graduated from Worcester College, University of Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and approved by the Law Society of the Middle Temple. He was awarded a Harmsworth Scholarship. From 1979 to 1984 he was recorder and First Junior Treasury Counsel for the Common Law. In 1980 he was Master of the Bench at Middle Temple. He was in 1984 appointed as a judge of the High Court of Justice and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. Upon his appointment, he was also a Knight Bachelor. In 1992 he became Lord Justice of Appeal, a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and in the same year a member of the Privy Council. From 2001 to 2003 he was Vice-President ( Vice - President) of the Civil Division.

Membership in the House of Lords

On 13 January 2004, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Brown and life peer with the title Baron Brown of Eaton -under- Heywood, of Eaton -under- Heywood in the County of Shropshire. On 8 June 2006 he gave his inaugural speech in the House of Lords on the subject of fundamental rights. There he sat first as a Cross Bencher. Currently (May 2012) it is run as Independent (Non- Affiliated ).

On 30 July 2009 joined Brown and the other Law Lords for the last time before the official establishment of the Supreme Court together and dealt with the case of the enterprise IM Litigation Funding.

Brown and nine other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were 1 October 2009 Judge founded on the same day the Supreme Court Since that day, he was excluded for the duration of his term of participation in the Upper House.

In October 2011, Secretary Theresa May began for a law that would prevent the immigration of non-European spouses. Unlike his colleagues on the Supreme Court to Brown advocated and justified this with the prevention of forced marriages.

Virtue of his office he had contacts with secret services and was President of the Security Service Tribunal from 1989 to 2000 and the Intelligence Services Tribunal from 1995 to 2000, as well as Intelligence Services Commissioner von 2000 to 2006. Moreover, he was Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Sub-Committee E (law and institutions ) of the House of Lords European Select Committee. His term ended on April 12, 2012.

In May 2012, he took part in the event, The Supreme Court comes to Belfast at Queen's University Belfast.

Most recently, he volunteered at a meeting on 8 June 2006 to word. Brown's presence fluctuated in the six sessions of 5-43 days. An votes he regularly participates since November 2012.

Honors

He is a Liveryman of the Butchers ' Company. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1992. The following year he became an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College. In addition, Brown is honorary member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS ).

Family

Brown is married since May 31, 1963 Jennifer Buddicom, daughter of Robert Prosper Gedye Buddicom. They have two sons and a daughter.