Name Elizabeth Gloster Profession Barrister | Nationality British Role Judge | |
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Full Name Elizabeth Gloster Born 5 June 1949 (age 74) ( 1949-06-05 ) Spouse Oliver Popplewell (m. 2008) People also search for Oliver Popplewell, Andrew Popplewell, Margaret Popplewell | ||
Dame Elizabeth Gloster, DBE, PC (born 5 June 1949) is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. She was the first female judge of the Commercial Court.
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Education
Gloster was educated at Roedean School and Girton College, Cambridge.
Career
Gloster was called to the bar at 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. From 2010-12, she was the judge in charge of the Commercial Court."The Hon Mrs Justice Gloster, DBE". Debrett's People of Today. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
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 on 7 December 2016, on the retirement of Lord Justice Moore-Bick.
Judgments
Private life
In 2004, Elizabeth Gloster was divorced from Stanley Brodie QC. On 15 March 2008, she married Sir Oliver Popplewell.