Former Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal (2011-2020)
Anthony Peter Clarke became a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal in 2011.
Lord Clarke was born in Scotland in 1943. He read economics and law at King's College, Cambridge. He was called to the English Bar at the Middle Temple in 1965. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1979. He was Treasurer of the Middle Temple in 2012.
Lord Clarke was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1993 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1998. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice. In 2009, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He was the first Justice to be appointed directly to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.