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19 Mar 2010 07:00 AM
Appointment of a District Judge - Hassall

News Release issued by the COI News Distribution Service on 18 March 2010

HM The Queen has appointed James Christopher Hassall to be a District 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 Northern Circuit, based at St Helens County Court with effect from Thursday 1 July 2010.

Notes to Editors

Mr Hassall is aged 37. He was called to the Bar (L) in 1995 and was appointed as a Deputy District Judge in 2004.

REF: JHR041/10

Contacts:

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