Movement Legal Dinner with Lord Neuberger
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
The Movement for Reform Judaism is delighted to have secured the Rt Hon the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger as guest speaker at its annual Legal Dinner.
If you are a lawyer and are interested in attending, there are still a few places available for the event which takes place on Tuesday 8th November.For further information please contact Adam Overlander-Kaye, Fundraising Director at the Movement on 020 8349 5686 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (in the county of Dorset) was appointed as Master of the Rolls with effect from 1st October 2009. The Master of the Rolls is the Head of Civil Justice, and the second most senior judicial post in England and Wales, after the Lord Chief Justice.
Lord Neuberger was born on 10 January 1948, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford University. After working at NM Rothschild & Sons 1970-73, he was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1974. He was made a Bencher for Lincoln’s Inn in 1993.
He was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel in 1987, and his first judicial appointment was as a Recorder, between 1990 and 1996. In 1996 he was appointed as a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division. He was the Supervisory Chancery Judge for the Midland, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits for 2000-2004.
In January 2004 he was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal. In January 2007 he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (a ‘Law Lord’) and given a life peerage.
Lord Neuberger led an investigation for the Bar Council into widening access to the barrister profession. He also served on the panel on fair access to the professions led by Alan Milburn.
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