Elisabeth Laing
British judge
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Dame Elisabeth Mary Caroline Laing, DBE (born 19 November 1956), styled The Rt. Hon. Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing, is a Lady Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[1]
Charles III
19 November 1956
Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing | |
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Laing in 2021 | |
| Lady Justice of Appeal | |
| Assumed office 28 October 2020 | |
| Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
| High Court Judge Queen's Bench Division | |
| In office 2014–2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Elisabeth Mary Caroline Laing 19 November 1956 |
She was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1980. A Recorder, and a former member of the Attorney General's Panel, she took Silk in 2008, and was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2010. She was appointed to the Welsh Government's Panel of Queen's Counsel in 2012.[1]
She has contributed to Halsbury's Laws, and to Supperstone, Goudie and Walker's Judicial Review. She was on the editorial board of Local Government Reports, and was a member of the BSB's Standards Committee and of the Committee of the BBA.
She has been a judge of the High Court of Justice (assigned to the Queen's Bench Division) since 2014.[1][2] In January 2017, she was appointed Chairman of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, the Pathogens Access Appeal Commission, and the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission.[3] She was appointed to the Court of Appeal on 28 October 2020.[4]
Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing served as a judge in the Court of Appeal for a Windrush case of Hubert Howard in July 2022.[5]