Submission - Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales [2023-10-01]
Dublin Core
Title
Submission - Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales [2023-10-01]
Subject
Judicial Appointments
Description
Alex Chalk's formal advice recommending that King Charles III sign a Warrant for the appointment of Dame Sue Carr as Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales.
Creator
Alex Chalk (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)
Source
FOI release
Date
Submission is undated, but the Warrant for her Letters Patent were dated October 1, 2023.
Contributor
Jason Loch
Relation
Coverage
England and Wales
Ministerial Submission Item Type Metadata
Transcript
(Sgd.) Appd
CR
The Lord Chancellor, with their humble duty to Your Majesty, submits for Your Majesty’s approval, if you shall so please, a Warrant appointing the Right Honourable Dame Sue Lascelles Carr, D. B. E., to be Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales in the place of the Right Honourable Ian Duncan Baron Burnett of Maldon.
(Sgd.) Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor,
Signatures
Alex Chalk (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)
Ornamentation
Printed in Times New Roman.
Special Features
Like other contemporary submissions, this uses the singular "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun for the Lord Chancellor.
Files
Citation
Alex Chalk (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice), “Submission - Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales [2023-10-01],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/638.