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Sir John Brigstocke KCB was appointed Judicial Appointments and Conduct Ombudsman in April 2006. He is a former Second Sea Lord and held the position of Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command. During Sir John’s 4 years on the Admiralty Board, he...
The King has approved the appointment of Admiral Sir George Zambellas GCB, DSC, ADC, DL, as Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports.
Lord Ahmad was first appointed as Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and as Minister of State for the Commonwealth and the United Nations in June 2017. Lord Ahmad was Minister of State for the Commonwealth and the...
Sir John Major served as Prime Minister between 1990 to 1997. Read more about the life and achievements of Sir John Major in our past Prime Ministers section.
General Sir David Richards was Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the armed forces and principal military adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence and government. He was appointed in 2009. Since his appointment to the...
Sir John joined the FCO in 1980 and after studying Arabic at SOAS and elsewhere has served mainly in the Middle East and South East Asia. His first posting was to Abu Dhabi. He has been Her Majesty’s Ambassador to...
We can look at complaints about how investigating bodies have handled complaints alleging misconduct by judicial office holders. We also look at the handling of complaints about the judicial appointments process. JACO works with the Ministry of Justice .
Lord Justice Haddon-Cave was called to the Bar in 1978 (G) and called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1980. He specialised in shipping and aviation law and acted in a number of notable UK aviation and marine disaster cases...
Soane’s is the idiosyncratic house-museum of the great Neo-Classical architect Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837). The house still displays his collection of antiquities, furniture, models and paintings in the same state in which they were left at the time...
Sir John O’Reilly was appointed Director General of Knowledge and Innovation in February 2013. John came from Cranfield University where he was Vice Chancellor from December 2006. Prior to that John was Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
Sir Julian King KCVO CMG was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the French Republic in 2016. Career Julian King was appointed Director-General Economic & Consular at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in June 2014. Previous to this post, Julian was appointed...
Lord Justice Edis was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1980 and took Silk in 1997. Bencher of Middle Temple 2004. Between 2000 and 2006 he was Head of Chambers at Atlantic Chambers, Liverpool. Senior Treasury Counsel at the...
The JAC is an independent commission that selects candidates for judicial office in courts and tribunals in England and Wales, and for some tribunals whose jurisdiction extends to Scotland or Northern Ireland. They select candidates for judicial office on merit...
Sir Martin Narey was appointed non-executive board member at the Ministry of Justice in August 2015. After a brief career in the NHS, Sir Martin began training to be a prison governor in 1982 and worked at a number of...
John Scadding, OBE, MD FRCP, is Honorary Consultant Neurologist Emeritus to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, and was formerly also neurologist to Whittington Hospital, honorary consultant civilian adviser in neurology to the Royal Navy and the Royal...
Lord Parkinson gave the keynote speech at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Award (IAA) policy meeting.
Lord Younger was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions on 1 January 2023. He was elected as a conservative hereditary peer in 2010 and has covered over 12 departments in the Lords. Previously,...
The Rt. Hon. Professor the Lord Ajay Kakkar PC is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University College London, Chairman of King Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre and Director of the Thrombosis Research Institute London. Lord Kakkar completed his medical...
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