Lady Black of Derwent DBE is appointed to the Supreme Court

Published 10th June 2020

She becomes the second woman Justice of the Court. Lady Black was called to the Bar in 1976 by Inner Temple. She specialised in family law and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1994.

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