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Press release SENIOR JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of the Right Honourable Sir Nicholas Allan Roy Wilson as a Justice of the Supreme Court with

effect from 26 May 2011. This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government The Queen has also been pleased to approve the appointment of

Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption OBE, QC as a Justice of the Supreme Court following the retirement of Lord Collins of Mapesbury in May 2011 with effect from a date to be agreed with the

President of the Court. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Lord Justice Nicholas Allan Roy Wilson (65) was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1967 and took Silk in 1987. He was appointed as a Recorder in

1987 and was made a Bencher in 1993. He was appointed to the High Court (Family Division) in 1993 and to the Court of Appeal in 2005. Lord Justice Wilson was knighted in 1993. Jonathan

Philip Chadwick Sumption OBE, QC (62) was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1975 and took Silk in 1986. He was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge in 1992 and served as a Recorder

between 1993 and 2001.  He was then appointed as a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey in 1995. ADDITIONAL NOTE FOR EDITORS Jonathan Sumption OBE, QC will take up the

appointment as soon as his existing professional commitments are completed, on a date to be agreed with the President of the Supreme Court. Following his retirement Lord Collins of Mapesbury

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UPDATES TO THIS PAGE Published 4 May 2011