The Right Honourable
Lady Simler
DBE
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Assumed office
14 November 2023
Nominated byAlex Chalk
Appointed byCharles III
Preceded byLord Kitchin
Lady Justice of Appeal
In office
2019–2023
Justice of the High Court
In office
2013–2019
Personal details
Born (1963-09-17) 17 September 1963
Alma materSidney Sussex College, Cambridge
University of Amsterdam

Ingrid Ann Simler, Lady Simler, DBE, PC (born 17 September 1963) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. She was previously a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[1]

Born to a Jewish family, she was educated at Henrietta Barnett School, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of Amsterdam.[2]

She was called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1987 and became a QC in 2006. Simler was appointed a Recorder in 2002 and was a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) from 2013. She was President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal for a term of three years from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018.[3]

On 27 June 2018, it was announced that Simler was to be appointed to the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), an appointment she took up on 2 July 2019.[4]

Simler was chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council of England and Wales,[5] and at the date of announcement of her appointment to the High Court bench in 2013 she was head of her chambers.[6] She is the chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee of the Inner Temple.[7]

On 17 October 2023, the Ministry of Justice announced that Simler will become a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.[8] She was sworn in on 14 November 2023.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. ↑ ‘SIMLER, Ingrid Ann’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  3. ↑ "President of the EAT & Upper Tribunal Chamber President of the Lands Chamber". Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges 2018". Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "101202 Bar Council minutes". barcouncil.org.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "Ingrid Simler QC appointed to the High Court Bench | Devereux Chambers". www.devereuxchambers.co.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "We Are Proud | Inner Temple". 3 July 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "New appointment to the UK Supreme Court: 17 October 2023". GOV.UK. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "Swearing-in of Dame Ingrid Simler as a Justice of the Supreme Court". The Supreme Court. Retrieved 14 November 2023.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.