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Lord Neuberger is new Master of the Rolls

Friday 24 July 2009 at 11:41 am | In News | Post Comment Lord David Neuberger has been appointed as the new Master of the Rolls, succeeding Lord Anthony Clarke.

Neuberger will become the ninety-fifth Master of the Rolls on 1 October this year when Clarke joins the Supreme Court after a four-year term.

Neuberger’s rise to the second-highest judicial post in the country – after the Lord Chief Justice – has been one of the fastest ever, having become the country’s youngest law lords in 2006 at the age of 58 after only two years at the Court of Appeal. He was called to the Bar in 1974.

The post of Master of the Rolls was initially a that of a clerk who looked after the records of the Chancery which were written on parchment, and the first recorded Master dates back to 1295.