Who's who
Who's who
The Treasurer
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Laws
He sits at the Royal Courts of Justice
Educated Durham Cathedral Choir School; Durham School. (King's Scholar);
Exeter College, Oxford
| 1970 | Called to the Bar, Inner Temple |
| 1985 | Master of the Bench, Inner Temple |
| 1985-92 | Recorder |
| 1992-98 | Judge of the High Court of Justice, QBD |
| 1992 | An Honorary Vice-President, Administrative Law Bar Association |
| 1994–present | President of the Bar European Group |
| 1999 | Appointed Lord Justice of Appeal |
| 2009 | Reader, Inner Temple |
Lord Justice Laws practised at the Common Law Bar from 1971 to 1992. He was First Junior Treasury Counsel (Common Law) from 1984 to 1992. He was admitted to the Bar of New South Wales in 1987 and Gibraltar in 1988. Since 1997 he has been a Judicial Visitor at UCL. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge in 1992 and an Honourary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 2000. He has been a Visitor to Cumberland Lodge from 2004. He has contributed to various legal journals; Dictionary of Medical Ethics, 1977; Supperstone and Goudie, Judicial Review, 1992, 2nd edn 1997; Importing the First Amendment, 1998; The Golden Metwand and the Crooked Cord, 1998; Cicero the Advocate, 2004; reviews for Theology, Law & Justice. His recreations include Greece, living in London and philosophy.
The Reader
The Rt Hon Lady Justice Hallett DBE
She sits at the Royal Courts of Justice
Educated St Hugh's College Oxford (Hon Fellow, 1999)
| 1972 | Called to the Bar, Inner Temple |
| 1989 | QC |
| 1989-99 | Recorder |
| 1993 | Master of the Bench, Inner Temple |
| 1995-1997 | Leader of South Eastern Circuit |
| 1998 | Appointed Chairman of General Council of the Bar |
| 1999-2005 | Appointed a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division |
| 2001-2004 | Presiding Judge, Western Circuit |
| 2005 | Appointed Lord Justice of Appeal |
| 2010 | Reader, Inner Temple |
Sub-Treasurer
Patrick Maddams Hon FRIBA
Patrick Maddams was appointed Sub-Treasurer of the Inner Temple in 2005. He joined from Beachcroft Wansbroughs, where he was Partnership Secretary. Patrick was previously Managing Director of the Royal Academy of Music and, before that, at Dunlop Textiles Ltd. His early career was with Standard Chartered Bank and the Ocean Shipping group.
He has been a lay Board member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and is qualified to validate University Faculties of Architecture. He has served on several RIBA working groups and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2007. He is currently Chairman of the pioneering Hackney Music Development Trust which has won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s award for education.
