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'''Igor Judge, Baron Judge''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (19 May 1941 – 7 November 2023
==Early life and education==
Judge was born in [[Malta]] on 19 May 1941,<ref name="lcj">{{cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/biographies/biography-lcj |title=Senior Judiciary Biographies – Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales |publisher=Judiciary of England and Wales |access-date=18 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120225815/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/biographies/biography-lcj |archive-date=20 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> to Raymond and [[Rosa Judge]] (née Micallef). Judge was educated at [[St. Edward's College, Malta]], from 1947 to 1954 and [[The Oratory School]] in [[Woodcote]] in [[Oxfordshire]] from 1954 to 1959, where he was Captain of School and Captain of Cricket.<ref name="lcj"/> He was awarded an Open Exhibition to study History and Law at [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]] in 1959, and he graduated [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in 1962.
==Legal career==
Judge Judge was [[called to the bar]] ([[Middle Temple]]) in 1963 and became a [[Recorder (judge)|Recorder]] in 1976 and [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1979.<ref name="lcj"/> From 1980 to 1986, he served on the Professional Conduct Committee of the [[General Council of the Bar|Bar Council]]. In 1987, he was elected Leader of the Midland Circuit. On 10 October 1988, Judge was appointed a Justice of the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=51500 |page=11473 |date=13 October 1988}}</ref> assigned to the [[Queen's Bench Division]], and awarded the customary [[Knight Bachelor|knighthood]].<ref name="lcj"/><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=51565 |date=20 December 1988 |page=14252}}</ref> He was appointed a [[Lord Justice of Appeal]], a judge of the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]], on 4 June 1996,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=54419 |page=7803 |date=7 June 1996}}</ref> becoming a [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Counsellor]].<ref name="lcj"/>
Judge replaced Lord Phillips as Lord Chief Justice on 1 October 2008.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58843 |page=15221 |date=6 October 2008}}</ref> The same day, he was created a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Judge''', of [[Draycote]] in the county of [[Warwickshire]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58845 |date=7 October 2008 |page=15299}}</ref> and he was [[Introduction (House of Lords)|introduced]] in the [[House of Lords]] five days later,<ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/minutes/081007/ldordpap.htm#minproc House of Lords Minutes of Proceedings of Monday 6 October 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026015240/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/minutes/081007/ldordpap.htm#minproc |date=26 October 2016 }}. Retrieved 14 August 2012.</ref> where he sat as a [[crossbencher]].
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In 2007 Lord Judge was awarded an [[honorary doctorate]] from [[Nottingham Trent University]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ntualumni.org.uk/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=316&srcid=292 |title=Honorary graduates A-Z |publisher=[[Nottingham Trent University]] |access-date=1 March 2010 |archive-date=22 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722234547/http://www.ntualumni.org.uk/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=316&srcid=292 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in 2010 was made an Honorary Fellow of [[Aberystwyth University]] as well as Kingston University. On 20 June 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Honorary Degrees 2012|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/honorary-degrees-2012|date=2012-06-20|website=University of Cambridge|language=en|access-date=2020-05-23|archive-date=22 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122143132/https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/honorary-degrees-2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
From November 2013 until his death in November 2023, Lord Judge served as a Distinguished Visitor to [[The Dickson Poon School of Law]] at [[King's College London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2013/10-October/Dickson-Poon-School-of-Law-welcomes-Lord-Judge.aspx|title=King's College London - Dickson Poon School of Law welcomes Lord Judge|access-date=11 January 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103802/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2013/10-October/Dickson-Poon-School-of-Law-welcomes-Lord-Judge.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>
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Judge succeeded [[Lord Hope of Craighead]] as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers in 2019.
==Personal life and death==
Judge had a son and two daughters. Helen was born in 1966 and married Timothy Noble in 1991. She gave birth to daughters Lucinda (1994) and Amelia (1996). Alastair was born in 1968 and married Kate Holcroft in 1998. Their own children are Cecelia (2005) and Benedict (2006).
Judge died on 7 November 2023, at the age of 82.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Telegraph |first1=Obituaries |title=Lord Judge, brilliant Lord Chief Justice and unflinching champion of a free press – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/11/08/lord-igor-judge-lord-chief-justice-champion-free-press/ |access-date=8 November 2023 |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=8 November 2023}}</ref>
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