First female head for Supreme Court

Lady Hale is to become the first female president of the UK’S highest court.

Baroness Hale of Richmond, 72, is currently deputy president of the Supreme Court.

Lady Hale became the first woman justice of the Supreme Court in October 2009, and was appointed deputy president in June 2013.

At the time she described her appointment as an “honour and a privilege”.

Yorkshire-born Lady Hale has campaigned for greater diversity in the judiciary throughout her career.