The Honorary Patronage of Lady Hale

Baroness Brenda Hale is a British judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 until 2020, the first woman to hold that position and indeed the first British woman to be made a law lord.
Hale was first called to the Bar in 1969 and also worked in academia for 18 years. In 1984, she became the first woman and the youngest person appointed to the Law Commission at the age of 39 and it was here that she helped devise the Children Act 1989, which created duties to courts, local authorities and parents to safeguard the rights and safety of children more effectively. In 1986 she was made professor of law at Manchester university.
By 1989 she had been appointed as a judge, by 1994 she was on the High Court, by 1999 she was the second woman ever to sit on the Court of Appeal and in 2013 she was appointed Deputy President of the Supreme Court. By 2017 she was the Supreme Court’s first woman president, where she made headlines for her progressive judgments with regards to domestic abuse, women’s interest and most famously, the prorogation case where Hale found that Boris Johnson had acted illegally by suspending parliament.
Throughout her career, Hale has been an advocate for diversity within the judiciary and has spoken out against the British legal system which tends to be “not only mainly male, overwhelmingly white, but also largely the product of a limited range of educational institutions and social backgrounds.”

The Phil was delighted to welcome her to the society in February 2021.

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