She took up the post earlier this month and succeeds Mr Justice Choudhury who stood down from the role on 31 December 2021 having served three years as president.

Mrs Justice Eady sat as a fee-paid employment judge from 2001-2008, and became a recorder in 2004, before being appointed as a senior circuit judge for the Employment Appeal Tribunal in 2013 until she became a High Court judge, assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division, in 2019.