List of judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales explained

The ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales are the Lord Justices of Appeal and Lady Justices of Appeal. These judges serve with the ex officio members of the court:

• Lord Chief Justice
• Master of the Rolls
• President of the King's Bench Division
• President of the Family Division
• Chancellor of the High Court
• Supreme Court judges appointed from the Court of Appeal or who were eligible to serve on it when appointed to the Supreme Court

Judges of the Court of Appeal are made members of the Privy Council within months of appointment, enabling them to serve as members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and entitling them to the style The Right Honourable.

The Senior Courts Act 1981 limited in principle the total number of Lord Justices of Appeal and Lady Justices of Appeal;^[1] it was raised by one to 39 by The Maximum Number of Judges Order 2015 (the Act allows for such Orders). The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 mandated that, along with other senior judges throughout the UK, they retired at 70 years of age (save for judges appointed before 31 March 1995 who had to retire at 75). However, the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 amended the 1993 Act to restore the retirement age of 75 for all judges, whenever appointed.^[2]

Ex officio judges

These are the ex officio judges of the Court of Appeal excepting the qualifying justices of the Supreme Court (the judges appointed from England and Wales); they are listed at Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom:

Office	Judge	Alma mater	Mandatory retirement	Date of appointment	class=unsortable	Prior roles
1			align=center			Court of Appeal (21 April 2020) Queen's Bench (14 June 2013)
2	Sir Geoffrey Vos	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge			Chancellor (24 October 2016) Court of Appeal (1 October 2013) Chancery Division (27 October 2009)
3	Dame Victoria Sharp				Court of Appeal (1 October 2013) Queen's Bench (13 January 2009)
4			align=center			Court of Appeal (28 July 2011) Family Division (18 April 2005)
5		Worcester College, Oxford			Court of Appeal (8 December 2016) Queen's Bench (14 April 2007)

List of judges of the Court of Appeal

As of 15 December 2023 there are 36 Judges on the court: 27 Lord Justices of Appeal and 9 Lady Justices of Appeal.^[3]

	Lord/Lady Justice	Alma mater	Mandatory retirement	Date of appointment	High Court appointment	High Court division	Other roles
1		Downing College, Cambridge				Chancery
2		New College, Oxford				Queen'sBench	Vice-President of the Civil Division
3		University of Sheffield				Family
4		Trinity Hall, Cambridge				Queen'sBench
5		University of Hull				Family	Chair of the Judicial College
6		St John's College, Oxford				Queen's Bench	Senior President of Tribunals
7		University of Bristol Northumbria University				Queen'sBench
8		University of Oxford				Family
9		Wadham College, Oxford				Queen'sBench	Vice-President of the Criminal Division.
10		Brasenose College, Oxford				Family
11		Queens' College, Cambridge				Chancery
12		Trinity College, Cambridge University of California, Berkeley				Queen's Bench	President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal
13		Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge St Edmund Hall, Oxford				Chancery
14		University of Keele				Queen's Bench
15		St John's College, Cambridge				Family
16		University of Birmingham				Queen's Bench
17		Pembroke College, Cambridge				Queen's Bench
18		University of Leicester University of Toronto University of Southampton				Queen's Bench
19		St John's College, Cambridge				Queen's Bench
20		Magdalen College, Oxford University of Westminster				Chancery
21		Downing College, Cambridge				Queen's Bench
22		Mansfield College, Oxford				Queen's Bench
23		University College, Oxford				Queen’s Bench
24	Sir Jeremy Stuart-Smith	Corpus Christi College, Cambridge				Queen’s Bench
25	Sir Clive Lewis	Churchill College, Cambridge				Queen's Bench
26	Dame Geraldine Andrews	King's College London				Queen’s Bench
27	Sir Christopher Nugee	Corpus Christi College, Oxford				Chancery
28	Dame Elisabeth Laing	Newnham College, Cambridge				Queen’s Bench
29	Sir Colin Birss	Downing College, Cambridge				Chancery	Deputy Head of Civil Justice
30	Sir Andrew Edis	University College Oxford				Queen's Bench	Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales
31	Sir Mark Warby	St John's College Oxford				Queen's Bench
32	Sir William Davis	Queen Mary University of London				Queen's Bench	Chairman of the Sentencing Council
33	Sir Richard Snowden	Downing College Cambridge				Chancery
34	Dame Philippa Whipple	Merton College Oxford				Queen's Bench
35	Dame Sarah Falk	Sidney Sussex College Cambridge				Chancery
36	Sir Peter Fraser	St John's College Cambridge				King's Bench	Chairman of the Law Commission

See also

• Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• List of High Court judges of England and Wales
• Senator of the College of Justice

Notes and References

1. Senior Courts Act 1981, s 2. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
2. Web site: 10 March 2022 . Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Act 2022 . legislation.gov.uk . . 22 March 2022.
3. Web site: Senior Judiciary. www.judiciary.uk. en-GB. 2019-04-05.