Swearing-in of new Supreme Court Justice
Swearing-in of new Supreme Court Justice
- Watch the swearing-in ceremony of Lord Sales - 14 January 2019
Monday 14 January 2019
09:30
Courtroom 1
On Monday 14 January a special ceremony will be held for the swearing-in of a new Justice of the UK Supreme Court. Lord Justice Sales will be sworn in at 9.30am in Courtroom One.
The Supreme Court building will remain open to the public whilst the ceremony takes place. Visitors will be welcome to watch the ceremony live on a 'big screen' in Courtroom Two, with seats allocated on a first come first serve basis.
The ceremony will be live streamed on the Supreme Court website and, a short time after the event, will be available to view 'on demand' via the Court's YouTube channel.
Lord Justice Sales was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, before reading law at both Churchill College, Cambridge, and Worcester College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln's Inn in 1985 and was appointed First Treasury Junior Counsel in 1997. He was an Assistant Recorder from 1999 to 2001, Recorder from 2001 and 2008, and Deputy High Court Judge from 2004 and 2008.
Lord Justice Sales became a Queen's Counsel in 2006 and continued to act in the re-named post of First Treasury Counsel Common Law until his appointment to the High Court, Chancery Division in 2008. He was a member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal between 2008 and 2015, and Vice-President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal between 2014 and 2015. Between 2009 and 2014 Lord Justice Sales served as Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for England. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2014.
Useful links
- Watch the swearing-in ceremony of Lord Sales - 14 January 2019
- This appointment was first announced by 10 Downing Street on 27 June 2018: Appointments to the Supreme Court