Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

The **Supreme Court** (initialism: **UKSC** or the acronym: **SCOTUK**) is the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

It hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance.

## Current Justices

|Portrait|Name|Born|Alma mater|Invested|Mandatory retirement|class="unsortable"|Prior senior judicial roles|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**** (President)|(age )|University of Edinburgh School of Law Balliol College, Oxford|||Senator of the College of Justice: Inner House (2008–2012) Outer House (1998–2008)||
||**** (Deputy President)|(age )|Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University of Edinburgh School of Law|||Senator of the College of Justice, Outer House (2005–2013)||
||****|(age )|Trevelyan College, Durham|||Lady Justice of Appeal (2010–2017) Justice of the High Court, FD (1999–2010)||
||****|(age )|Downing College, Cambridge|||Lord Justice of Appeal (2012–2017) Justice of the High Court, QBD (2005–2012)||
||****|(age )|Magdalen College, Oxford|||Lord Justice of Appeal (2013–2017) Justice of the High Court, CD (2006–2013)||
||****|(age )|Girton College, Cambridge Harvard Law School|||Lady Justice of Appeal (2000–2018) Justice of the High Court, CD (1993–2000)||
||****|(age )|Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|||Lord Justice of Appeal (2011–2018) Justice of the High Court, CD (2005–2011)||
||****|(age )|Churchill College, Cambridge Worcester College, Oxford|||Lord Justice of Appeal (2014–2018) Justice of the High Court, CD (2008–2014)||
||****|(age )|St John's College, Oxford Harvard Law School|||Lord Justice of Appeal (2016–2020) Justice of the High Court, QBD (2008–2016)||
||**Lord Leggatt**|(age )|King's College, Cambridge Harvard University City Law School|||Lord Justice of Appeal (2018–2020) Justice of the High Court, QBD (2012–2018)||
||**Lord Burrows**|(age )|Brasenose College, Oxford Harvard University|||None (First Justice to be appointed direct from academia)||
||**Lord Stephens**|(age )|University of Manchester|||Lord Justice of Appeal (NI) (2017–2020) Justice of the High Court (NI) (2007–2017)||

## Infobox (high court)

- **court name**: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- **native name**:

- **image**: Middlesex Guildhall (cropped).jpg
- **imagesize**: 150px
- **caption**: Middlesex Guildhall in London is where the court is located and held at
- **established**: 1 October 2009
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **jurisdiction**: United Kingdom (civil cases)
England and Wales and Northern Ireland (criminal cases)
- **location**: Middlesex Guildhall, Parliament Square, London, England
- **type**: Appointed by the British monarchy, Monarch
(Queen-on-the-Bench)

on the advice of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister, following #Appointment process, approval of a recommendation by the Secretary of State for Justice
- **authority**: Constitutional Reform Act 2005, Part 3, Section 23(1) and s. 23 (whole section)
- **positions**: 12
- **chiefjudgetitle**: President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, President
- **chiefjudgename**: Robert Reed, Lord Reed, Lord Reed
- **termstart**: 13 January 2020
- **chiefjudgetitle2**: Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Deputy President
- **chiefjudgename2**: Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Lord Hodge
- **termstart2**: 27 January 2020