NEW BRITISH JUDGE TO THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE

18 Jul 2003 04:45 PM

The Government will nominate the Rt. Hon Lord Justice Schiemann to replace Judge David Edward at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.

Judge Edward will retire from the Court at the end of December.

Lord Justice Schiemann's nomination requires the approval by common accord of the Governments of all the Member States. If approved it is expected that Lord Justice Schiemann would be sworn in at the European Court of Justice before the end of December and would take up his duties in January 2004.

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Curriculum Vitae

The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Schiemann

Full Name: Sir Konrad Hermann Theodor Schiemann

Date of Birth: 15 September 1937

Career

Graduated in law from Cambridge University in 1961. Called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1962, Junior Counsel to the Crown from 1978 to 1980, appointed Queen's Counsel in 1980.

After a period in 1985 and 1986 as a Recorder of the Crown Court, he became a judge, a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, in 1986. Between 1990 and 1992 he was a member of the Parole Board (Vice-Chairman 1991-1992). Since 1995 he has been a Lord Justice of Appeal.

He is head of the U.K delegation to the Association of Councils of State and Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge University and the Centre for European Private Law of the University of Muenster. He is on the Council of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.

For many years he was chairman of the scholarship committee of the Inner Temple and is now Treasurer of that Inn.

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