Lord Rodger Memorial Lecture: The judge as lawmaker

Lord Reed

Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Reed, will be considering Lord Reid’s approach to judicial lawmaking and assessing how relevant it is to the courts at the present time.

Lord Reid was Scotland’s Solicitor General from 1936 until 1941 and Lord Advocate from then until 1945. He was Dean of Faculty between 1945 and 1948, when he was elevated to the bench, becoming a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

He remained a judge until 1975 and is one of a small number of people to be appointed to the highest level of the judiciary directly from the bar.

Lord Reed sat as the principal judge in the Commercial Court before being promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2008.

He is an authority on human rights law in Scotland and elsewhere and serves as one of the UK’s ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights. He is also a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.

The event is free to attend, click here to book a place.