Lord Chief Justice appoints 40 Deputy High Court Judges

The appointments under section 9(4) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 follow an open competition run by the Judicial Appointments Commission.

The new Deputy High Court Judges are:

• Susan Alegre
• Nicholas Paul Thomas Allen QC
• Charles Richard Milo Bagot QC
• Simon Christopher Birt QC
• Paul Edward Bowen QC
• Kirsty Brimelow QC
• Matthew Butt QC
• Simon Colton QC
• Nigel Stuart Cooper QC
• Sarah Crowther QC
• Naomi Clare Davey
• Dexter Dias QC
• Benjamin Douglas-Jones QC
• Antony Philip Dunne OBE
• Richard John Alva Farnhill
• Campbell Alexander James Forsyth
• Jonathan Joseph Glasson QC
• Simon Gleeson
• Eleanor Mary Grey QC
• Amanda Jane Hardy QC
• James Simon Healy-Pratt
• Eleanor Mary Henrietta Hill QC
• Jonathan Adam Hilliard QC
• Paul Andrew Hopkins QC
• Jeremy Rupert Daniel Hyam QC
• Geoffrey Llewelyn Woodward Kingscote QC
• Tom Charles Little QC
• Charlotte Louisa May QC
• David Niaz Mohyuddin QC
• Clare Melanie Padley
• Robert Henry Palmer QC
• David Pievsky QC
• Karen Lesley Ridge
• Vikram Sachdeva QC
• Caroline Shea QC
• Bilal Muhammad Siddique
• Peter Skelton QC
• Michael John Tappin QC
• Simon Tinkler
• Stephen Mark Trowell QC

The appointment of Deputy High Court Judges comes after the naming of five new Justices of the High Court this month.