Legal news

Mr Huw Eifion Roberts has been appointed a District Judge deployed to the Wales Circuit, based at Wrexham County Court and Family Court, with effect from May 14, 2018.

Mr Declan Mathew Denis Mark O’callaghan has been appointed a salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber, based in London with effect from April 30, 2018.

Tribunal Judge Kimnell retired with effect from April 26, 2018.

and Media, 2004-09, now President Emeritus, 82; Mr Robin Hanbury-tenison, explorer, 82; Mr John Padovan, company chairman, 80; Lord Collins of Mapesbury, a former Justice of The Supreme Court, 77; Sir David Steel, a former High Court Judge, 75; Mr Peter Carey, writer, 75; Prof Michael Rosen, poet and author; Children’s Laureate, 2007-09, 72; Sir Nicholas Hytner, theatre and film director; Director, National Theatre, 2003-15, 62; Dr Calum Macdonald, former Labour MP, 62; Prof Anne Marie Rafferty, Professor of Nursing Policy, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, 60; Prof Lord Darzi of Denham, surgeon, 58; Mrs Justice Whipple 52; Miss Anya Hindmarch, designer, 50; and Mr Jeetan Patel, New Zealand cricketer, 38.

Today is the anniversary of the German surrender in 1945. It is also the anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory in 1765, the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 and of the birth of Robert Browning in 1812.