Lord Hodge to retire from Supreme Court next year
Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, has today announced his intention to retire on 31 December 2025.
Lord Hodge has served as a justice of the Supreme Court and the JCPC since 1st October 2013 and was appointed as deputy president in January 2020. Appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1996, Lord Hodge was a judge in Scotland, Jersey and Guernsey before joining the Supreme Court.
He said: “It is and has been a great honour to serve the United Kingdom in the Supreme Court. I will greatly miss the company of my friends and colleagues in the Court but owe it to my wife to step back at this stage of our lives.”