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Lord Phillips

The Right Honourable
The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
KG PC QC
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Coat of arms of The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
President of the Supreme Court
In office
1 October 2009 – 30 September 2012
Monarch Elizabeth II
Deputy The Lord Hope of Craighead
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
1 October 2008 – 30 September 2009
Monarch Elizabeth II
Deputy The Lord Hoffmann
The Lord Hope of Craighead
Preceded by The Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Succeeded by Office abolished
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
In office
3 October 2005 – 30 September 2008
Preceded by The Lord Woolf
Succeeded by The Lord Judge
Master of the Rolls
In office
6 June 2000 – 3 October 2005
Preceded by The Lord Woolf
Succeeded by The Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
12 January 1999 – 6 June 2000
Preceded by The Lord Lloyd of Berwick
Succeeded by The Lord Scott of Foscote
Personal details
Born (1938-01-21) 21 January 1938 (age 79)
Nationality Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British
Spouse(s) Christylle née Rouffiac
(now The Lady Phillips of Worth Matravers)
Children 2
Residence Hampstead, London
Alma mater King's College, Cambridge

Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, KG PC QC (born 21 January 1938) is a British lawyer and former senior English judge.

Lord Phillips served as the inaugural President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, holding office between October 2009 and October 2012. He is also the last Senior Law Lord and the first Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales to be head of the English judiciary when that function was transferred from the Lord Chancellor in April 2006. Before his chief justiceship, he was Master of the Rolls from 2000 to 2005. He sits as a crossbencher.

Phillips was educated at Bryanston School; appointed a Governor of the school in 1975, he has been Chairman of its Governors since 1981. He undertook his National Service with the Royal Navy and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, being commissioned as an officer. After the two years' service he went to King's College, Cambridge, where he read law. In 1962, he was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, where he was the Harmsworth Scholar. He undertook pupillage at 2 Essex Court Chambers (with the Anglo-American QC, Waldo Porges) and subsequently obtained a Tenancy there, later moving to 1 Brick Court (now Brick Court Chambers). In 1973 he was appointed as Junior Counsel to the Ministry of Defence and to the Treasury in and Admiralty matters. On 4 April 1978, he became a Queen's Counsel (QC). His maternal grandparents, two young immigrants to this country were Sephardic Jews and had eloped to Britain from Alexandria.


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