Ernest Ryder

The Right Honourable
Sir Ernest Ryder
TD DL
Lord Justice Ryder in 2013
Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 2020
Preceded byLynne Brindley

Sir Ernest Nigel Ryder, TD, PC, DL (born 9 December 1957) became a Lord Justice of Appeal in April 2013 and was appointed Senior President of Tribunals in September 2015. In July 2020, Ryder became the Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.[1]

Education and family life

Ryder was educated at Bolton School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, and worked for the merchant bank, Grindley Brandt & Co 1979–81, before qualifying as a barrister.

He married Janette Martin in 1990, and they have one daughter.

In January 2014, he was installed as Chancellor of the University of Bolton.

Career

Ryder was called to the Bar in 1981 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997. He became a Recorder in 2000, and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2001.[2] Ryder was appointed a High Court judge in 2004,[3] receiving the customary knighthood, and was allocated to the Family Division. On 9 April 2013, he was promoted Lord Justice of Appeal,[4] consequently being sworn of the Privy Council.

Ryder was appointed to the post of Judge in Charge of Modernisation of Family Justice in November 2011,[5] and under his stewardship published the Judicial Proposals for the modernisation of family justice in July 2012.[6] Many of the recommendations were implemented by the Children and Families Act 2014, including a 26-week time limit for determination of care and supervision proceedings.[7]

In July 2015 it was announced that Ryder had been appointed Senior President of Tribunals with effect from 18 September 2015.[8] He retired from that role on 19 September 2020 [9]

He was appointed as a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation in September 2014.[10]

He received a Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Commission on 26 May 2023.[11]

Military

Ryder has served as a Territorial Army officer in the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry (later Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry) and received the Territorial Decoration in 1996.

Notable Cases

Ryder was lead counsel for a respondent mother in the leading domestic violence child contact order case, Re LVNH (Children) (Contact: Domestic Violence) [2001].[12]

Ryder was Counsel to the North Wales Tribunal of Inquiry 1996–99.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Sir Ernest Ryder elected as next Master". Pembroke College. University of Oxford.
  2. ^ "Lord Justice Ryder PC TD".
  3. ^ "No. 57283". The London Gazette. 8 May 2004. p. 5789.
  4. ^ "No. 60472". The London Gazette. 11 April 2013. p. 7097.
  5. ^ "Mr Justice Ryder appointed to key modernisation role after Family Justice Review". Local Government Lawyer. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  6. ^ http://collateral.newsflashconnect.co.uk/RemoteStorage/Judiciary/Releases/420/ryderj_recommendations_final.pdf [dead link‍]
  7. ^ "The Children and Families Act 2014 – essential update". www.familylaw.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Appointment of the Senior President of Tribunals". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. 6 July 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Retirement of the Right Honourable Sir Ernest Nigel Ryder, Senior President of Tribunals".
  10. ^ "Lord Justice Ryder appointed Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation". University of Bolton. 12 September 2014. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  11. ^ "No. 64066". The London Gazette. 26 May 2023. p. 10626.
  12. ^ [2001] Fam 260; [2001] 2 WLR 339
  13. ^ "Senior President of Tribunals (SPT) – Sir Ernest Ryder". www.judiciary.uk. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
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Preceded by Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
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