The Lord Reed of Allermuir | |||||||||
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2022 | |||||||||
| President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |||||||||
| Assumed office 13 January 2020 | |||||||||
| Nominated by | David Gauke | ||||||||
| Appointed by | Elizabeth II | ||||||||
| Deputy | Lord Hodge | ||||||||
| Preceded by | The Baroness Hale of Richmond | ||||||||
| Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |||||||||
| In office 7 June 2018 – 13 January 2020 | |||||||||
| Nominated by | David Gauke | ||||||||
| President | The Baroness Hale of Richmond | ||||||||
| Preceded by | The Lord Mance | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Lord Hodge | ||||||||
| Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | |||||||||
| In office 6 February 2012 – 7 June 2018 | |||||||||
| Nominated by | Kenneth Clarke | ||||||||
| Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||||||||
| Preceded by | The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry | ||||||||
| Senator of the College of Justice | |||||||||
| In office 1998–2012 | |||||||||
| Nominated by | Tony Blair | ||||||||
| Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||||||||
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |||||||||
| Assumed office 16 January 2020 (Judicial Peer not sitting in the House) Life Peerage | |||||||||
| Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong | |||||||||
| In office 31 May 2017 – 30 March 2022 | |||||||||
| Appointed by | Leung Chun-ying | ||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||
| Born | Robert John Reed 7 September 1956 Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Jane Mylne, Lady Reed | ||||||||
| Education | George Watson's College | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 韋彥德 | ||||||||
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Robert John Reed, Baron Reed of Allermuir, PC, FRSE (born 7 September 1956) is a Scottish judge who has been President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since January 2020. He was the principal judge in the Commercial Court in Scotland before being promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2008. He is an authority on human rights law in Scotland and elsewhere; he served as one of the UK's ad hoc judges at the European Court of Human Rights. He was also a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.