{"id":608,"date":"2008-10-05T21:17:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2008-10-05T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T20:18:07","slug":"sir-igor-judge-lord-chief-justice-of-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Sir Igor Judge Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-606\" style=\"width:226px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/igor_judge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/igor_judge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>igor_judge<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Sir Igor Judge has been sworn in as the new Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales at the Royal Courts of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old will now be known as Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony in London was attended by Justice Secretary Jack Straw in his role as Lord Chancellor, as well as senior judges and lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Judge takes over from Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, who is moving to the House of Lords, the UK&#8217;s highest court.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Judge was called to the Bar in 1963, becoming a QC in 1979. He was appointed a High Court judge in 1988 and became a Court of Appeal judge in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>He later rose to be President of the Queen&#8217;s Bench Division of the High Court and Head of Criminal Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>igor_judge Sir Igor Judge has been sworn in as the new Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales at the Royal Courts of Justice. The 67-year-old will now be known as Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice. The ceremony in London was attended by Justice Secretary Jack Straw in his role as Lord Chancellor, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}