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The Rt Hon the Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of
Abbotsbury (in the county of Dorset) was appointed as Master of the Rolls with effect from 1st October 2009.
The Master of the Rolls is the Head of
Civil Justice and the second most senior judicial post in England and Wales, after the Lord Chief Justice. Lord Neuberger was born on 10 January 1948, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford
University. After working at NM Rothschild & Sons 1970-
73, he was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1974. He was made a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 1993. He was appointed
Queen’s Counsel in 1987, and his first judicial appointment was as a Recorder, between 1990 and 1996. In 1996 he was appointed as a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division. He was the Supervisory Chancery Judge for the Midland, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits for 2000-04. In January
2004 he was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal. In January
2007 he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (a
‘Law Lord’) and given a life peerage. Lord Neuberger led an investigation for the Bar Council into widening access to the barrister profession. He also served on the panel on fair access to the professions led by Alan Milburn. Since 1999 he has been Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Spoliation of Art (in the Holocaust), and since 2003 he has been Chairman of the Schizophrenia Trust. He has been a governor of the
University of the Arts London since 2000. Lord Neuberger is married with two sons and one daughter.
Professor Richard Susskind OBE
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to law firms, general counsel, judges, and governments. His main area of expertise is the future of legal services.
His numerous books include The Future of Law (Oxford, 1996), Transforming the
Law (Oxford, 2000), and the worldwide legal bestseller, The End of Lawyers ?
(Oxford, 2008). He is a regular contributor to The Times , has been invited to lecture in over 40 countries, and has addressed legal audiences (in person and electronically), numbering more than 200,000. Richard is Honorary and Emeritus Law
Professor at Gresham College, London; Visiting Professor in Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford
University; and IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice. He was

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IT consultant to Lord Woolf in his Access to Justice Inquiry, to Sir Jefferey Bowman in his Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Review, to Sir Robin Auld in his Criminal Courts Review, and to Sir Andrew Leggatt in his “Review of Tribunals”. From 2003 until 2008, Richard was Chair of the UK’s Advisory Panel on
Public Sector Information (a non-departmental public body set up by the Cabinet Office in 2003, and now part of the Ministry of Justice). A Scots lawyer by background, Richard holds a doctorate in law from Balliol College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. He was awarded an OBE in 2000 for services to IT in the Law and to the Administration of Justice.
Professor Dame Hazel Genn DBE, QC (Hon)
Dame Hazel Genn is Dean of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in the Faculty of Laws at University
College London, where she is also an Honorary Fellow. Since April 2006 she has been a Commissioner of the
Judicial Appointments Commission and was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 2003-7.
She has worked with the Judicial
Studies Board for over 15 years. She is a leading authority on civil justice and dispute resolution and has published widely in the field. In 2008 she delivered the Hamlyn Lectures on the subject of civil justice (published by Cambridge University
Press in November 2009 entitled Judging Civil Justice ). Her research has focused on public use of the legal system, dispute resolution and judicial decision-making. Her original studies have had a major influence on policy-makers around the world and she is regularly invited to lecture and provide advice abroad. In recognition of her work on civil justice, she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000 and appointed DBE in 2006. In 2006 she was also appointed
Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa and in 2008 was elected an
Honorary Master of the Bench of Gray’s Inn.
Professor Cheryl Thomas
Cheryl Thomas is Professor of Judicial
Studies and Director of the UCL
Jury Project in the Faculty of Laws at University College London. Her appointment in 2010 as Professor of
Judicial Studies is the first chair in judicial studies in the United Kingdom. She has served as a specialist consultant on judicial affairs to the Lord Chancellor’s
Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity, Her Majesty’s Crown
Prosecution Service Inspectorate, the European Commission,
Judicial Studies Board, Council of Europe, Lord Chancellor,
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French government, and former Commission for Judicial
Appointments. Her research has focused on juries, judicial decision-making, the role of diversity in the justice system, and the appointment and training of judges. She is the country’s leading expert on juries and she has pioneered the study of jury decision-making in the criminal courts this country. Her studies, Are Juries Fair?
(2010) and Diversity and Fairness in the Jury System (2007), tackle sensitive and controversial issues about jury decision-making and have laid to rest many longstanding myths about juries. As well as an academic, she is also a documentary filmmaker and has produced programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Discovery and PBS.
Chair: Joshua Rozenberg
Joshua Rozenberg is Britain’s bestknown commentator on the law. He was the BBC’s legal correspondent for
15 years before moving in 2000 to
The Daily Telegraph , where he edited the paper’s legal coverage until the end of 2008. He writes also for the
London Evening Standard and the Law
Society’s Gazette . Joshua is known for his independence, his authority and his ability to explain complicated legal issues with simplicity, clarity and wit. Because he trained as a lawyer before becoming a journalist, he is well respected by lawyers and the judiciary and is often the first port of call for broadcasters faced with a breaking legal story.
Joshua launched the popular BBC series Law in Action as its first presenter. He has a particular interest in constitutional reform, dating back to his time as producer of The Week in
Westminster on Radio 4. Freedom of expression is another of his interests, his most recent book being Privacy and the
Press (OUP, 2004, updated 2005). Earlier books include Trial of
Strength, which examined the tensions between ministers and judges under the last Conservative Government, The Search for Justice , an anatomy of the law in the mid-1990s and The
Case for the Crown , which charted the launch of the Crown
Prosecution Service. After taking a law degree at Oxford he trained as a solicitor, qualifying in 1976. He holds an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Hertfordshire and is an
Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn.

The UCL Judicial Institute
The Judicial Institute research programme is designed to provide robust empirical evidence about the judicial process.
Major current Judicial Institute research projects include:
• Tribunal Decision-Making : Consistency and Diversity
• UCL Jury Project: Ensuring Fairness and Effectiveness
• Future Justice: Changing Role of Judges and Courts in the 21st Century
• Menu for Justice: Developing a European-wide
Curriculum in Judicial Studies
• Civil Justice Reform: Evaluating the Effectiveness of New
Measures
The Judicial Institute is committed to assisting the development of judicial policies through empirical research and by providing a high-level forum for policy discussions between judges, academics and policy-makers.
• Seminar Series: Science and Social Science in the
Courtroom :
Seminars designed to provide understanding of cutting edge work in social and physical sciences having a direct impact on judicial decision-making.
• Policy Briefings:
Bringing together leading experts and members of the judiciary from the UK and abroad for high-level discussions about key issues of concern to the judiciary under the Chatham House Rule.
Virtual Justice and the Future Courtroom Programme
Drawing on existing infrastructure in the UCL Laws Faculty, including the Moot Courtroom and new high tech facilities, the Judicial Institute is establishing a programme exploring the impact of the use of technology and virtual courtroom procedures on the justice system.
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The Judicial Institute is pioneering educational programmes at all levels to increase understanding of the judiciary.
• Degree Teaching:
Innovative LLM teaching about and with judges, and
Europe’s first Executive Masters Degree in Judicial Studies
• Professional Development Courses :
Educating practitioners about the judiciary and judicial functions.
• Reaching the Next Generation:
Law Without Walls: world-wide university initiative between UCL, US and China using innovative approaches to legal learning and problem solving
Pathways to Law: inspiring young university applicants from under-represented groups to pursue a legal career
• Europe:
Menu for Justice : The Judicial Institute is the UK representative on this European Commission programme to map current teaching about the judiciary in Europe with the aim of developing a European-wide curriculum in
Judicial Studies
• New Book Series in Judicial Studies
• Judicial Papers Archive
• Judicial Sabbaticals
• Opportunity for judges at all levels to draw on the skills of outstanding UCL Laws graduates through
clerkships

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Professor Dame Hazel Genn (Dean UCL Faculty of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies)
Professor Cheryl Thomas (Professor of Judicial Studies and Director of the UCL Jury Project, UCL Faculty of Laws)
Dr. Nigel Balmer (UCL Laws, Centre for Empirical Legal Studies)
Dr. Geoff Bird (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience)
Dr. Basak Cali (UCL Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy)
Dr. Roxanna Ferllini (UCL Institute of Archaeology)
Dr. David Lagnado (UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences)
Dr. Ruth Morgan (UCL Security and Crime Science, Director of the Centre for Forensic Sciences)
Professor Pascoe Pleasence (UCL Laws, Director of the Centre for Empirical Legal Studies)
Professor Dennis Curtis (Yale University School of Law)
Dr. Harold Epinuese (World Bank, Counsel for Justice Reform and Deputy Director, Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice)
Professor Carlo Guarnieri (Department of Political Science, University of Bologna)
Professor Daniela Piana (Department of Political Science, University of Bologna)
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26-27 November Pitbladeo Lectures: Winnepeg, Canada
Keynote Speaker: Professor Dame Hazel Genn
Mediation, Arbitration and Civil Justice
19 January Judicial Institute Seminar and Book Launch
Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy and Rights in City-States and
Democratic Courtrooms (Yale University Press)
Professor Judith Resnik & Professor Dennis Curtis, Yale University
5-6 March
10 March
Understanding Judging: Roles, Skills and Challenges
Intensive Weekend Course for Practitioners
Accredited with SRA and BSB (12 CPD points)
Increasing Diversity Bursaries available (see course description)
23 March
25-26 March
UCL Lunch Hour Lecture
Sex, Drugs, the Internet and Juries
Professor Cheryl Thomas, Director of the UCL Jury Project and Co-Director of the UCL Judicial Institute
Judicial Institute Seminar and Book Launch
Judicial Accountabilities in New Europe: From Rule of Law to Quality of Justice (Palgrave Macmillan Press)
Professor Daniela Piana, University of Bologna
European Commission Menu for Justice Annual Meeting
Legal & Judicial Training in European Law: Challenges & Innovations from Across Europe

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April
14 April
18-20 April
June
October
Future Justice Programme Seminar
Do We Need a Judicial College in Britain? Experiences and Observations from Home and Abroad
Higher Courts Judges Conference: High Court of New Zealand
Professor Dame Hazel Genn
Civil Justice Reforms in England and Wales
Justice in the Round Conference : Hamilton, New Zealand
Keynote Speaker: Professor Dame Hazel Genn
Judicial Determination and Dispute Resolution
The Value of Judicial Papers
Inaugurating the Judicial Papers Archive at UCL
Sir Henry Brooke (tbc)
Inaugural Lecture
Professor Cheryl Thomas
Professor of Judicial Studies, UCL Faculty of Laws
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This course offers the opportunity for lawyers in practice to gain a greater understanding of the range of judicial roles, the generic judicial skills and qualities needed to be a judge, the key differences between being in legal practice and being a judge, and the potential ethical challenges practitioners face when moving from practice into a judicial post.
The course will cover:
• Organisation of the Judiciary
• Role of the Judge: What type of judicial role is right for me? Am I ready to be a judge?
• Workload of Judges
• Applying for Judicial Appointment: Myth and Reality
• Judicial Skills and Competences
• Judicial Ethics: Crossing the Divide
• Future of Judging
Topics will be taught using a variety of different learning approaches
• Advance readings
• Podcasts by judges
• Hands-on decision-making sessions: covering all aspects of decision-making, ethical issues
• All hands-on sessions facilitated by experienced judicial trainers
• Short introductory presentations by experienced judges
Increasing Diversity Bursaries
25% of all places on this course will be funded by bursaries.
For further information, please contact the UCL Judicial
Institute.

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A Unique Executive Masters
This is the first programme in Judicial Studies to be offered in
Europe, and reflects the growing recognition of the key role of the judiciary in both domestic and European policy. This degree is not a series of training courses for judges (this is done by national bodies), nor is it a degree in jurisprudence or legal theory. It is a programme of study about the key role of the judiciary in society, which is an established academic discipline based on a significant and growing body of empirical research. Judicial Studies explores the role of the judiciary as an institution as well as the role of the individual judge within the legal, social and political spheres of society. It involves the study of the judicial decision-making process, the administration of courts, the impact of transnational judicial systems and differing approaches to judicial independence and accountability. It is taught by leading judicial scholars in conjunction with prominent judges, lawyers and judicial policy makers who are able to bring a wealth of practical knowledge to the degree course.
The Programme:
This Executive Masters programme is uniquely designed for those who require a flexible programme they can integrate into their working life, and is aimed at: judges, judicial and legal policy-makers, as well as lawyers and academics from any jurisdictions. The programme brings the participants together once a month over the course of 9 months for several days of intensive work. This is a UCL Laws degree, but with the added benefit of being taught in association with the French Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice (IHEJ) and the University of Bologna. This means the teaching faculty is drawn not just from the leading academic experts working at the cutting edge of judicial studies, but also from senior judges and judicial policy experts across Europe. Monthly meetings alternate between London and Paris, with a weeklong session in Italy. The topics are tailored to issues where there is specific expertise in each of the 3 locations and draw on local/regional specialists. The course is taught in English.
For further information, please contact the UCL Judicial
Institute.
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The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Carnwath
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Etherton
The Rt Hon Lady Justice Hallett
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Jackson
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Jacob
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Kay
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Sedley
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Sullivan
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Thomas
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Toulson
The Hon Mr Justice Arnold
The Hon Mr Justice Browne QC
The Hon Mr Justice Cranston
The Hon Mrs Justice Dobbs
The Hon Mr Justice Maddison
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Standards
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Law Commission
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11 Grays Inn Square Chambers
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NOMS
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Jim Wood
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Judicial Officie for England & Wales
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