Ex-Supreme Court judge named as independent member of standards watchdog

Former Supreme Court justice Lady Arden has been appointed as an independent member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

Lady Arden served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from October 2018 to January 2022. Prior to that she was a Judge of the High Court of Justice (1993 to 2000) and a Lady Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (2000 to 2018).

Lady Arden’s five-year term will begin on 13 February 2023.

Her other previous roles include being Chair of the Law Commission of England and Wales (1996-9), a member of the Steering Group for the DTI’s Company Law Review (1999-2001), Chair of the Judges’ Working Party on Constitutional Reform (2004-6), and Judge in Charge, then Head, of International Judicial Relations for England and Wales (2005 to 2018).

Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, said: “I would like to congratulate Lady Arden on her appointment to the Committee. She has a distinguished judicial career and her extensive experience will benefit the Committee.”