HM The Queen has
appointed James Richard William Goss QC to be a Circuit Judge on
the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw
MP. The Right Honourable The Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of
England and Wales has assigned him to the North Eastern Circuit,
based Bradford Combined Court Centre with effect from 14 December 2009.
Notes for the Editor
James Richard William Goss QC is 56. He was called to the Bar (I)
in 1975 and took Silk in 1997. He was appointed as an Assistant
Recorder in 1993, as a Recorder in 1994, as a Fee-Paid Legal
Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal in 2003, and as a
Fee-Paid Legal Member of the Restricted Patients Panel in 2006.
REF: JHR158/09
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Ministry of Justice - Judicial Appointments
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