Anthony Peter Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony has been the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales since 3 October 2005. He is to be one of the first twelve Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, when it starts sitting on 1 October 2009. Clarke was educated at Oakham School. In 1957 the trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams first made him interested in pursuing a career in the law.

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  • Anthony Peter Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony has been the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales since 3 October 2005. He is to be one of the first twelve Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, when it starts sitting on 1 October 2009. Clarke was educated at Oakham School. In 1957 the trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams first made him interested in pursuing a career in the law. He read economics and law at King's College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1965, and specialised in commercial and maritime law. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1979, and was a Recorder sitting in both criminal and civil courts from 1985 to 1992. He became a High Court judge in 1993, receiving the customary knighthood, and was allocated to the Queen's Bench Division. In April 1993, he succeeded Mr. Justice Sheen as the Admiralty Judge. He sat in the Admiralty Court, the Commercial Court and the Crown Court, trying commercial and criminal cases respectively. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in 1998, and appointed to the Privy Council. Shortly, thereafter he took charge of the Thames Safety Inquiry and in the following year the judicial inquiry into the Marchioness disaster. He was appointed as Master of the Rolls in 2005. On 15 April 2009, it was announced that Clarke would be granted a life peerage, and he was subsequently created Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, of Stone-cum-Ebony in the County of Kent on 29 May 2009, and took his seat in the House of Lords on 1 June 2009. It was announced on 20 April 2009 that he will be appointed to the Supreme Court with effect from 1 October 2009. He received an honorary degree from the University of Hull on 20 February 2009.
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  • Incumbent
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  • 3 June 2009
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  • 2005- present
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  • Anthony Peter Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony has been the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales since 3 October 2005. He is to be one of the first twelve Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, when it starts sitting on 1 October 2009. Clarke was educated at Oakham School. In 1957 the trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams first made him interested in pursuing a career in the law.
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  • Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony
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