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Appointment of A Salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal of the Social Entitlement Chamber (Social Security and Child Support)

Appointment of A Salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal of the Social Entitlement Chamber (Social Security and Child Support)

News Release issued by the COI News Distribution Service on 18 September 2009

The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, has appointed Jeremy David Atkinson to be a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal of the Social Entitlement Chamber (Social Security and Child Support).

Mr Atkinson will be assigned to the Eastern Region and based in Northampton, with effect from 16 November 2009.

Notes to Editor

Jeremy David Atkinson is 48. He was admitted as a Solicitor in 1987. He was appointed as a Fee-paid Legally Qualified Panel Member of the Appeal Tribunals in 1998, as a Fee-paid Legal Member of the Family Health Service Appeal Authority in 2002 and as a Fee-paid 5 year Fixed Term Immigration Adjudicator in 2002 (known as a Fee-paid Immigration Judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal since 2005).

REF: JHR115/09

Contacts:

Ministry of Justice - Judicial Appointments
ndsenquiries@coi.gsi.gov.uk

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