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Monarch
  
Elizabeth II

Name
  
Simon Baron

Preceded by
  
Position created

Unit
  
Royal Artillery

Nationality
  
British

Service/branch
  
British Army

Spouse(s)
  
Jennifer Buddicom


Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

Preceded by
  
The Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough

Full Name
  
Simon Denis Brown

Born
  
9 April 1937 (age 86) (
1937-04-09
)

Alma mater
  
Worcester College, Oxford

Role
  
President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Succeeded by
  
Robert Carnwath, Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill

Education
  
University of Oxford, Worcester College, Oxford

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Simon Denis Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, PC (born 9 April 1937) is a British lawyer and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Early life

The son of Denis Baer Brown and Edna Elizabeth Brown (née Abrahams), Brown was born on 9 April 1937. He was educated at Stowe School, an independent school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire.

He undertook National Service in the Royal Artillery from 1955 to 1957. He was commissioned on 24 March 1956 as a second lieutenant. He was transferred to the Regular Army Reserves of Officers on 29 July 1957, thereby ending his active service. He was promoted to lieutenant on 7 January 1961.

He graduated from Worcester College, Oxford.

Brown was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1961, having been Harmsworth Scholar. From 1979 to 1984, he was a Recorder and First Junior Treasury Counsel (Common Law). In 1980, he served as Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple.

Judicial career

Brown was appointed a High Court Judge in 1984 and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving a knighthood on his appointment. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal, a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, in 1992 and was made a Privy Counsellor in the same year. He was Vice-President of the Civil Division from 2001 to 2003. In 2004, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and therefore became a life peer with the title Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, sitting as a crossbencher. He and nine other Lords of Appeal in Ordinary became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration on 1 October 2009.

In 2011, Brown gave a concurring judgment in R v Gnango in which he stated that "[t]he general public would be astonished and appalled if in those circumstances the law attached liability for the death only to the gunman who actually fired the fatal shot." The decision of the Supreme Court and Brown's judgment in particular were criticised by former Lord Justice of Appeal the Rt Hon. Sir Richard Buxton QC and Dr Jonathan Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Laws at University College London, for tenuous reasoning in an attempt to mollify public opinion.

Personal life

He has been married to Jennifer Buddicom since 31 May 1963; they have two sons and one daughter (Benedict, Daniel and Abigail).

References

Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood Wikipedia