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Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing
Laing in 2021
Lady Justice of Appeal

Incumbent

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 Middle Temple in 1980. A Recorder, and a former member of the Attorney General's Panel, she took 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 High Court of Justice (assigned to the Queen's Bench Division) since 2014.[1][2] In January 2017, she was appointed Chairman of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, the Pathogens Access Appeal Commission, and 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

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