New Lord Chief Justice Legal Wales

Legal Wales congratulates Sir John Thomas on being appointed Lord Chief Justice of Wales and England

The Chair of the Board of Legal Wales, Judge Milwyn Jarman QC, has written to Sir John Thomas to congratulate him on his appointment as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. Sir John, who was brought up in Cwmgiedd in the Swansea Valley, was a Presiding Judge of Wales between 1998 and 2001 and was one of those who inpired the establshment of Legal Wales and supported the holding of a Legal Wales Conference. He has attended the Conference regularly over the years and the 2013 Conference will be an opportunity for him to speak to delegates about his vision of the role of the judiciary in modern Wales.