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25 Mar 2010 07:00 AM
District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) Appointment

News Release issued by the COI News Distribution Service on 24 March 2010

HM The Queen has appointed Huw Bodfan Jenkins to be a District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) 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 Wales Circuit, based at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court, with effect from Monday 19 April 2010.

Notes to Editors

Huw Bodfan Jenkins, aged 60, will be known officially as District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) Jenkins, but he wishes to be referred to locally as DJ(MC) Bodfan Jenkins. He was admitted as a Solicitor in 1976 and was appointed as a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) in 2000.

Please note that from 1 April 2010 judicial announcements will no longer be distributed by the News Distribution Service or accessible from the News Distribution Service website. From that date they can be found on the Ministry of Justice website at www.justice.gov.uk/news.htm under Judicial Appointments.

Ref: JHR043/10

Contacts:

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