The Right Honourable Lord Justice Leveson

Non-executive director and Senior Presiding Judge of England and Wales

Responsibilities The addition of non-executive and executive members helps to reinforce the senior management team at a time of great change for the Department. Through their considerable experience and expertise they will add a great deal of value to the discussions, and help ensure the highest quality of decision making.

Biography

The Right Honourable Lord Justice Leveson was appointed as a non-executive director of the Department for Constitutional Affairs in January 2007.

Called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1970, he took silk in 1986, becoming a Recorder in 1988 and a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales in 2000, when he was assigned to the Queens Bench Division and, later, to the Administrative Court. From 2002 to 2005 he was a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit and, since January 2006, has been Deputy Senior Presiding Judge. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal and a member of the Privy Council in October 2006. He became Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales in January 2007.

He is married with three children.

Education

Liverpool College and Merton College, Oxford.