Beverley Lang

Dame Beverley Ann Macnaughton Lang, DBE (born 13 October 1955), styled The Hon. Ms Justice Lang, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

The Honourable
Ms Justice Lang
DBE
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
Justice of the High Court
Assumed office
3 October 2011
Appointed byElizabeth II
Personal details
Born (1955-10-13) 13 October 1955
Alma materLady Margaret Hall, Oxford

She was educated at Wycombe Abbey School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1978 and worked as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia from 1978 to 1981. She was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2000, Recorder from 2006 to 2011, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2011.[1] On 15 March 2012, Lang was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Dame Commander (DBE).[2]

She was elected an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall in 2011.[3] She is a granddaughter of Archibald Orr Lang.


References
  1. 'LANG, Dame Beverley Ann Macnaughton', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  2. "No. 60097". The London Gazette. 23 March 2012. p. 5859.
  3. "The Hon Ms Justice Lang DBE". Lady Margaret Hall. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
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