Elisabeth Laing

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Lady Justice of Appeal
Assumed office
28 October 2020
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
High Court Judge
Queen's Bench Division
In office
2014–2020
Personal details
Born
Elisabeth Mary Caroline Laing

(1956-11-19) 19 November 1956 (age 67)
NationalityBritish

Dame Elisabeth Mary Caroline Laing,

DBE (born 19 November 1956), styled The Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing, is a Lady Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[1]

She was called to the bar at

Silk in 2008, and was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2010. She was appointed to the Welsh Government's Panel of Queen's Counsel in 2012.[1]

She has contributed to Halsbury's Laws, and to Supperstone, Goudie and Walker's Judicial Review. She was on the editorial board of Local Government Reports, and was a member of the BSB's Standards Committee and of the Committee of the BBA.

She has been a judge of the

Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission.[3] She was appointed to the Court of Appeal on 28 October 2020.[4]

Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing served as a judge in the Court of Appeal for a Windrush case of Hubert Howard in July 2022.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire conferred: Elisabeth Mary Caroline Laing". GOV.UK. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Appointment of Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal". www.judiciary.uk. 31 July 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Biographies of the Court of Appeal judges". www.judiciary.uk. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Windrush man was treated shamefully, appeal judges say". BBC News. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

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