Elizabeth Gloster
Dame Elizabeth Gloster, DBE, PC (born 5 June 1949) is a former judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Vice-President of the Civil Division. She was the first female judge of the Commercial Court. Education. Gloster was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge. Career. Gloster was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1971 (and made a bencher in 1992). In 1989, she became a Queen's Counsel. She was appointed a judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey in 1993 and a Recorder in 1995 . On 21 April 2004, Gloster was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), and allocated to the Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court). From 2010 to 2012, she was the judge in charge of the Commercial Court. Gloster oversaw the case between Russian oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich. She found Berezovsky to be "an inherently unreliable witness" and sided with Abramovich in 2012. It later emerged that Gloster's stepson had been paid almost £500,000 to represent Abramovich as a barrister early in the  case. Her stepson's involvement was alleged to be more than had been disclosed. Berezovsky stated, "Sometimes I have the impression that Putin himself wrote this judgment". Gloster declined to comment. On 9 April 2013, she was appointed a Lady Justice of Appeal and consequently appointed to the Privy Council. She became Vice-President of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal on 7 December 2016, on the retirement of Lord Justice Moore-Bick. She retired from the Court of Appeal on 1 June 2018. Private life. In 2004, Elizabeth Gloster was divorced from Stanley Brodie QC. On 15  March 2008, she married Sir Oliver Popplewell. References. Bibliography