The Right Honourable The Lord Mance PC QC |
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Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |
Assumed office 1 October 2009 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Position created |
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary | |
In office 3 October 2005 – 1 October 2009 |
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Preceded by | Lord Steyn |
Succeeded by | Position eliminated |
Lord Justice of Appeal | |
In office 27 April 1999 – 3 October 2005 |
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High Court Judge | |
In office 1993 – 27 April 1999 |
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High Steward of the University of Oxford | |
Assumed office 1 October 2012 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Jonathan Hugh Mance 6 June 1943 |
Nationality | British |
Spouse(s) | Dame Mary Arden |
Children | 3 |
Education | Charterhouse School |
Alma mater | University College, Oxford |
Occupation | Judge |
Profession | Barrister |
Jonathan Hugh Mance, Baron Mance, PC, QC (born 6 June 1943) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Mance was born on 6 June 1943, one of four children of Sir Henry Stenhouse Mance, one-time chairman of Lloyd's of London.
Like his father, he attended Charterhouse School, a boarding school in Godalming, Surrey. He then studied at University College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1965, becoming a QC in 1982 and a Bencher in 1989.
In 1990, he became a Recorder, and on 25 October 1993 was appointed a High Court judge, serving in the Queen's Bench Division, and received the customary knighthood. On 27 April 1999, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal, and appointed to the Privy Council.
On 3 October 2005, he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and consequently created a life peer as Baron Mance, of Frognal in the London Borough of Camden. He was introduced in the House of Lords on 12 October 2005. On 1 October 2009, he and nine other Lords of Appeal became Justices of the Supreme Court upon that body's inauguration. In a speech to the Hoge Raad in The Netherlands in 2013, Lord Mance described the creation of the Supreme Court as the consequence of a "back of an envelope plan".