Lady Hale

Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, served as president of the UK Supreme Court from 2017 until her retirement in January 2020.

She graduated at the top of her class at the University of Cambridge before spending 18 years teaching, researching and writing in law at the University of Manchester while occasionally practising at the Manchester bar.

She was the first woman and the youngest person to be appointed to the Law Commission, where she worked on what eventually became the Children Act 1989 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

In 1994, on her appointment to the High Court bench, she became its first judge to have made a career as an academic and public servant rather than as a top barrister.

In 2004, she became the first – and only – woman law lord, and subsequently a justice of the new Supreme Court on its establishment in 2009. She became its deputy president in 2013 and president in 2017.

Lady Hale’s talk on Tuesday 28 September will be held online via the Webex platform. Tickets are available for £20 for BSA member and £30 for non-members and can be booked by contacting briege@belfast-solicitors-association.org.