The Right Honourable The Lord Hope of Craighead KT PC FRSE |
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Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 1 October 2009 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II |
President | The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers |
Preceded by | inaugural |
Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
In office 20 April 2009 – 1 October 2009 |
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Preceded by | The Lord Hoffmann |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
In office 1996–2009 |
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Preceded by | The Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session | |
In office 1989–1996 |
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Preceded by | The Lord Emslie |
Succeeded by | The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry |
Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 1998 |
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Deputy | Jim McDonald |
Personal details | |
Born | James Arthur David Hope 27 June 1938 |
Nationality | Scottish |
Spouse(s) | Katharine Mary Kerr |
Residence | Edinburgh |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge; University of Edinburgh |
Occupation | Judge |
Profession | Advocate |
Military service | |
Service/branch | Army |
Years of service | 1957–59 |
Rank | Lieutenant |
Unit | Seaforth Highlanders |
James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, KT, PC, FRSE (born 27 June 1938) is a Scottish judge and Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, having previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
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Hope was born on 27 June 1938 to Edinburgh lawyer Arthur Henry Cecil Hope, OBE, WS and Muriel Ann Neilson Hope (née Collie),[1] and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Rugby School. After National Service as an officer with the Seaforth Highlanders between 1957 and 1959, rising to lieutenant,[1][2][3] he was an Open Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge in 1959 and graduated B.A. in 1962. He then returned to Scotland and studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, graduating LL.B. in 1965.[1]
In 1966, Hope married Katharine Mary Kerr, daughter of solicitor Mark Kerr WS, with whom he has twin sons and a daughter.[1]
Hope was admitted as an advocate in 1965 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1978.[4] He served as Standing Junior Counsel in Scotland to the Board of the Inland Revenue from 1974 to 1978, and as an Advocate Depute from 1978 to 1982, prosecuting cases on behalf of the Crown. Between 1985 and 1986, he was Chairman of the Medical Appeal Tribunal and the Pensions Appeal Tribunal, and from 1986 to 1989 was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.
In 1989, Hope became a Senator of the College of Justice, taking the judicial title, Lord Hope, and was appointed directly to the offices of Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, Scotland's highest judge. He was made a Privy Counsellor at this time, and was awarded a Life peerage in the 1995 New Year Honours,[5] his title being gazetted as Baron Hope of Craighead, of Bamff in the District of Perth and Kinross on 28 February 1995.[6] In 1996, Lord Hope of Craighead retired as Lord President to become a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary,[7] and was succeeded by Lord Rodger. On 1 October 2009, Hope became one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and its first Deputy President.
Lord Hope of Craighead has been Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde since 1998, and was appointed a Fellow in 2000. He was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University in 1993, and by the University of Aberdeen in 1991 and the University of Edinburgh in 1995. In 2007, he was awarded the David Kelbie Award by the Institute of Contemporary Scotland. He was formerly an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Aberdeen, and is an honorary member of the Canadian Bar Association (1987) and of The Society of Legal Scholars (1991), an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (2000), and an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn (1989) and of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland (1995). He is also, as of 2008, the Honorary President of the Edinburgh Student Law Review.
On St Andrew's Day, 30 November 2009, Lord Hope was appointed to the Order of the Thistle by Queen Elizabeth II.[8] The Order of the Thistle is the highest chivalric honour in Scotland. In the UK as a whole it is second only to the Order of the Garter amongst chivalric orders. The order honours Scottish men and women who have held public office or who have contributed in some way to national life.[9]
As Deputy President
As Lord of Appeal
As Lord President
As Lord Justice General
Legal offices | ||
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Preceded by Lord Emslie |
Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session 1989–1996 |
Succeeded by Lord Rodger |
Preceded by Lord Jauncey |
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1996–2009 |
Abolished |
Preceded by Lord Hoffmann |
Second Senior Law Lord 2009 |
Abolished |
New creation | Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom 2009–present |
Incumbent |
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