Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance

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Lord Justice of Appeal
In office
27 April 1999 – 3 October 2005
High Court Judge
In office
1993 – 27 April 1999
Personal details
Born
Jonathan Hugh Mance

(1943-06-06) 6 June 1943 (age 80)
NationalityBritish
Spouse
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(m. 1973)​
Children3
EducationCharterhouse School
Alma materUniversity College, Oxford
OccupationJudge
ProfessionBarrister

Jonathan Hugh Mance, Baron Mance,

PC (born 6 June 1943) is a retired British judge who was formerly Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
.

Early life

Mance was born on 6 June 1943,

Institute of Transport; his great-grandfather, Sir Henry Christopher Mance, invented the heliograph
.

Like his father, he attended

QC in 1982 and a Bencher in 1989.[6]

Judicial career

In 1990, he became a

Privy Council.[6]

On 3 October 2005, he was appointed a

Hoge Raad in The Netherlands in 2013, Lord Mance described the creation of the Supreme Court as the consequence of a "back of an envelope plan", which "took some years to straighten out".[11]

He has also served as Chairman of the Banking Appeals Tribunal (1992–93), Chairman of the Consultative Council of European Judges (2000), President of the British Insurance Law Association (2000–02) and trustee of the European Law Academy (2003).[1]

Mance was appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in September 2017, succeeding Baroness Hale who became President of the Supreme Court.[12] He was sworn into the new position on 2 October 2017.[13] He retired from the Supreme Court on 6 June 2018.[14]

Other appointments

In October 2012, the

Chancellor of the University of Oxford, The Lord Patten of Barnes, appointed The Lord Mance as High Steward of the University of Oxford, on the retirement of The Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood.[15] He served in this position until 2018.[5][1] He is an honorary fellow of University College,[16] and Visitor of St Cross College, Oxford. In 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from Canterbury Christ Church University.[17] He is the current Chief Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court, an arbitration centre based in Kazakhstan.[18]

Selected cases

Personal life

He is married to

Court of Appeal or consecutively in the Supreme Court.[20] They have two daughters and a son, Henry, who is the chief features writer of the Financial Times.[21] Lord Mance's interests include tennis, languages and music.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "MANCE". Who's Who. Oxford University Press. December 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2009. (subscription required)
  2. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U166776
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  3. ^ Burke's Peerage, 2003, vol. 2, p. 2581
  4. ^ "Jonathan Mance profile". The Times. April 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2012.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ a b "Lord Mance | Barrister at 7KBW". 7KBW. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  6. ^ a b c "Judicial Appointments". 10 Downing Street. 22 July 2005. Archived from the original on 9 September 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  7. ^ "No. 53469". The London Gazette. 28 October 1993. p. 17295.
  8. ^ "No. 55478". The London Gazette. 7 May 1999. p. 5087.
  9. ^ "No. 57779". The London Gazette. 7 October 2005. p. 12971.
  10. ^ House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings for Wednesday 12 October 2005. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  11. ^ "Lord Mance gives speech to mark 175th anniversary of founding of Hoge Raad, The Netherlands : The Rule of Law - Common Traditions and Common Issues" (PDF). The Supreme Court. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  12. ^ "No. 61978". The London Gazette. 28 June 2017. p. 12346.
  13. ^ "Lord Mance named Deputy President of the Supreme Court - The Supreme Court". supremecourt.uk. The Supreme Court. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  14. ^ "Queen approves appointment of Deputy President of the Supreme Court". 10 Downing Street. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  15. ^ "Notices, Oxford University Gazette". Ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  16. ^ "univ.ox.ac.uk". Univ.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  17. ^ "Honorary Graduands Academic Year 2012/13". Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  18. ^ "Chief Justice".
  19. ^ "Lord Mance delivers Liverpool Law Review Annual Lecture". Liverpool John Moores University. 9 November 2007. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  20. ^ Marcel Berlins (26 July 2005). "An unusually interesting batch of promotions to the highest courts". Roman law. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  21. ^ "Henry Mance | Financial Times". ft.com. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
Legal offices
Preceded by Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
2017–2018 		Succeeded by
Lord Reed
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