His Majesty The King has approved the appointment
of Lord Briggs
of Westbourne as the next President of the Supreme
Court. The King made the appointment on the advice of the Prime
Minister and Lord Chancellor, following the recommendation of an
independent selection commission. Lord Briggs will take up his
new role in January 2027, when the current President, Lord Reed,
retires. Lord Briggs will be the Court's fifth President since it
was established in 2009.
Lord Briggs was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013. He
was the judge in charge of the Chancery Modernisation Review in
2013 and led the Civil Courts Structure Review in 2015 to 2016,
which recommended the establishment of an online civil
court. In January 2016 he was appointed Deputy Head of
Civil Justice, and in that capacity served as the de facto head
of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee.
Lord Briggs was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court in
2017. During his time in the Court he has been engaged in a
range of judicial work, but particularly a series of cases about
the role of equity and fiduciary duty in
our common law. From 2022 he has also had
delegated responsibility for the practice and procedure of
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
