CROWN APPOINTMENT: GUERNSEY

23 Jul 2002 03:55 AM

The Queen, on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, has been pleased to approve the appointment of Mr John Nikolas van Leuven to be Her Majesty's Procureur of Guernsey in succession to Mr Geoffrey Robert Rowland QC.

Mr van Leuven will take up his appointment in the autumn 2002.

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Mr van Leuven was born in Guernsey in 1947 and educated at Elizabeth College. He studied law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the English Bar in 1971 when he became an advocate in private practice. From 1983 to 2002 he has been a senior partner in one of Guernsey's principal legal firms.