Heather Hallett

Heather Hallett

Dame Heather Carol Hallett, DBE (born 16 December 1949), styled The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Hallett, is an English judge of the Court of Appeal. She is the fifth woman to sit in the Court of Appeal, after Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (now Baroness Butler-Sloss) (1988), Dame Brenda Hale (now Baroness Hale of Richmond) (1999), Dame Mary Arden (2000) and Dame Janet Smith (2002).

Hallett was educated at Brockenhurst Grammar School, in the New Forest, and at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

She was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1972. She became a Queen's Counsel in 1989 and a Bencher of Inner Temple in 1993. She was the first woman to chair the Bar Council, in 1998, having been vice-chair in 1997.

She was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1989 and a deputy High Court judge in 1995. She became a full-time judge of the High Court, in 1999, in Queen's Bench Division, and was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 2005.

She was appointed as a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission in January 2006, as a representative of the judiciary.

External links

* [http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1287.htm Court of Appeal, Civil Division] from Her Majesty's Court Service
* [http://www.judicialappointments.gov.uk/about/chair_commissioners.htm Chair and Commissioners] from the Judicial Appointments Commission
* [http://www.frb.co.uk/cgi-bin/dmr5?access=&runprog=frb/frb_pages&mode=disp&fragment=1997_11_098 Brief biography] from Financial Regulatory Briefing, November 1997


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