Appointments
Miss Nicola Velfor Davies, QC, has been appointed a justice of the High Court with effect from January 22, assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division, on the elevation of Mr Justice Pitchford to the Court of Appeal. Miss Davies, 55, was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1976 and took silk in 1992. She was appointed a recorder in 1992 and is approved to sit as a deputy High Court judge. Mr Justice Pitchford, 61, was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1969 and took silk in 1987. He was also appointed a recorder in 1987, a judge of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court in 2000 and presiding judge for the Wales and Chester Circuit from 2002 to 2005.
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Terence Richard Peter Hollingworth has been appointed a designated immigration judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, with effect from February 1, 2010. Mr Hollingworth, 58, was admitted as a solicitor in 1979. He was appointed as a deputy district judge (magistrates’ courts) in 2000, as a full-time immigration adjudicator in 2003 and became an immigration judge with the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in April 2005.
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Retirements
Queen’s Bench
Graham Hunt Rose retired on January 19, 2010. Master Rose, 72, was called to the Bar (I) in 1961. He was appointed as a deputy circuit judge in 1976, as a deputy Queen’s Bench Master in 1985 and as a Queen’s Bench Master in 1992.