Talk:Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows

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I recommend that this page be renamed Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows in order to reflect the fact that the subject has now taken up office as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Dlíodóir95 (talk) 20:13, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 stipulates that a person is not qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court unless
 * (i) he/she has held high judicial office for a period of at least 2 years,
 * OR
 * (ii) been a qualifying practitioner for a period of at least 15 years.
 * Source: https://www.supremecourt.uk/about/appointments-of-justices.html
 * As such, Lord Burrows has met not just one but both criteria specified in the Act. This is because up until 2020 - the year when he became a Justice of the SCOTUK - he was
 * (1) a Deputy High Court Judge from 2007 to 2020;
 * (2) a Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit from 1998 to 2020, and
 * (3) a Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London from 1989 to 2020.
 * Source: Other professional memberships and roles https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/lord-andrew-burrows
 * Therefore, the twice-repeated phrase "the first Justice to be appointed directly from academia" (the very last phrase of the first paragraph and of the fifth paragraph in the article 'Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows') is somewhat ambiguous. This has, in turn, led to many online comments with the false belief that Lord Burrows was neither a judge nor a barrister prior to his appointment as a Justice of the SCOTUK. Em Cee Ho (talk) 09:06, 24 February 2023 (UTC)