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Agenda
- Short introduction from Iain MacDonald (Chair of Law Reform Committee)
- Announcement of the winners of the Law Reform Essay Competition
- Lord Carnwath’s speech
- Questions from the audience
The Rt. Hon. Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill
Lord Carnwath was until his retirement in March 2020 a member of the UK Supreme Court.
He read classics and law at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1968. He practised principally in planning, local government, and administrative law. He acted as junior counsel to the Inland Revenue (Common Law) from 1980 to 1985. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1985, and was Attorney General to the Prince of Wales from 1988 to 1994 (for which service he was awarded Companionship of the Victorian Order).
He was appointed as a High Court Judge in October 1994 and sat in both the Chancery Division, and the Administrative Court. He served as chairman of the Law Commission from 1999 to July 2002. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in January 2002. From 2004 he provided judicial leadership for the reform of the tribunal system following the Leggatt report “Tribunals for Users”, and was appointed as the first statutory Senior President of Tribunals in November 2007. He continued in that role until April 2012 when he became a member of the Supreme Court.
Throughout his career he has taken a special interest in environmental issues. He been honorary President of the UK Environmental Law Association, and of the Planning and Environmental Bar Association. Since 2004 he has worked as an adviser to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on judicial training, and is a member of their International Advisory Council on Environmental Justice. In 2004 he was a founder-member and first Secretary General of the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment (“EUFJE). In 2015, in conjunction with the Foreign Office and King’s College, London, he co-hosted a conference on Climate Change and the Law. He is now a Visiting Professor in Practice of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (at the LSE).
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