David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead

The Right Honourable
The Lord Hope of Craighead
KT PC FRSE
Convenor of the Crossbench Peers
Assumed office
28 September 2015
Preceded by The Lord Laming
Deputy President of the
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
In office
1 October 2009 – 26 June 2013
Monarch Elizabeth II
Preceded by Position created
Succeeded by The Baroness Hale of Richmond
Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
21 April 2009 – 1 October 2009
Preceded by The Lord Hoffmann
Succeeded by Position abolished
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
1 October 1996 – 1 October 2009
Preceded by The Lord Keith of Kinkel
Succeeded by Position abolished
Lord Justice General
Lord President of the Court of Session
In office
1989–1996
Preceded by The Lord Emslie
Succeeded by The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde
In office
1998–2013
Deputy Sir Jim McDonald
Succeeded by The Lord Smith of Kelvin
Personal details
Born James Arthur David Hope
(1938-06-27) 27 June 1938
Nationality Scottish
Spouse(s) Katharine Mary Kerr
Residence Edinburgh
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge;
University of Edinburgh
Profession Advocate
Military service
Service/branch Army
Years of service 1957–59
Rank Lieutenant
Unit Seaforth Highlanders

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, KT, PC, FRSE (born 27 June 1938) is a retired Scottish judge who served as the first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2013, having previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. In 2015, he became the Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords.[1]

Early life

Hope was born on 27 June 1938 to Edinburgh lawyer Arthur Henry Cecil Hope, OBE, WS and Muriel Ann Neilson Hope (née Collie),[2] and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Rugby School. After National Service as an officer with the Seaforth Highlanders between 1957 and 1959, rising to lieutenant,[2][3][4] he was an Open Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge in 1959 and graduated B.A. in 1962. He then returned to Scotland and studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, graduating LL.B. in 1965.[2]

In 1966, Hope married Katharine Mary Kerr, daughter of solicitor Mark Kerr WS, with whom he has twin sons and a daughter.[2]

Hope was admitted as an advocate in 1965 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1978.[5] He served as Standing Junior Counsel in Scotland to the Board of the Inland Revenue from 1974 to 1978, and as an Advocate Depute from 1978 to 1982, prosecuting cases on behalf of the Crown. Between 1985 and 1986, he was Chairman of the Medical Appeal Tribunal and the Pensions Appeal Tribunal, and from 1986 to 1989 was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

The Bench and later public life

In 1989, Hope became a Senator of the College of Justice, taking the judicial title, Lord Hope, and was appointed directly to the offices of Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, Scotland's highest judge. He was made a Privy Counsellor at this time, and was awarded a Life peerage in the 1995 New Year Honours,[6] his title being gazetted as Baron Hope of Craighead, of Bamff in the District of Perth and Kinross on 28 February 1995.[7] In 1996, The Lord Hope of Craighead retired as Lord President to become a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary,[8] and was succeeded by The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry. On 21 April 2009, he was appointed Second Senior Law Lord, succeeding Lord Hoffmann.[9] On 1 October 2009, Hope became one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and its first Deputy President. He retired from that position on 26 June 2013.

In November 2014 it was announced that Lord Hope would be appointed as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 2015.[10]

Honours

The Lord Hope of Craighead has been Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde since 1998, and was appointed a Fellow in 2000. He stepped down as Chancellor in October 2013.[11] He was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University in 1993, and by the University of Aberdeen in 1991 and the University of Edinburgh in 1995. In 2007, he was awarded the David Kelbie Award by the Institute of Contemporary Scotland. He was formerly an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Aberdeen, and is an honorary member of the Canadian Bar Association (1987) and of The Society of Legal Scholars (1991), an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (2000), and an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn (1989) and of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland (1995). He is also, as of 2008, the Honorary President of the Edinburgh Student Law Review.

On St Andrew's Day, 30 November 2009, Lord Hope was appointed to the Order of the Thistle by Queen Elizabeth II.[12] The Order of the Thistle is the highest chivalric honour in Scotland. In the UK as a whole it is second only to the Order of the Garter amongst chivalric orders. The order honours Scottish men and women who have held public office or who have contributed in some way to national life.[13]

Notable cases

As Deputy President of the Supreme Court

As Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

As Lord President

As Lord Justice General

References

  1. ↑
  2. 1 2 3 4 A&C Black (December 2008). "HOPE OF CRAIGHEAD, Baron". Who's Who online edition. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41216. p. 6400. 1 November 1957. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41798. p. 5357. 21 August 1959. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 47612. p. 9503. 8 August 1978. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 53893. p. 1. 30 December 1994. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 53972. p. 3449. 3 March 1995. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 54543. p. 13211. 4 October 1996. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 59045. p. 1. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  10. ↑ Queen Appoints senior judge as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly.
  11. ↑ "Lord Smith of Kelvin appointed University of Strathclyde Chancellor" (Press release). University of Strathclyde. 3 May 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  12. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 59258. p. 20801. 1 December 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
  13. ↑ "Announcement of new appointments to the Order of the Thistle, 29 November 2009". Royal Household of the United Kingdom. 29 November 2009. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  14. ↑ supremecourt.uk: HM Treasury v Ahmad, etc, 27 Jan 2010
Legal offices
Preceded by
The Lord Emslie		 Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session
1989–1996 		Succeeded by
The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Preceded by
The Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle		 Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
1996–2009 		Abolished
Preceded by
The Lord Hoffmann		 Second Senior Law Lord
2009 		Abolished
New creation Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
2009–2013 		Succeeded by
The Baroness Hale of Richmond
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