City of London Lifetime Achievement Award
The City of London Law Society (CLLS) Lifetime Achievement Award recognises the contribution a senior lawyer has made to the legal profession and the wider community over an entire career. The Right Hon the Lord Collins of Mapesbury receives the CLLS Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding legal career, from City solicitor to Justice of the Supreme Court and his service to the legal profession.
December 08, 2009 at 02:16 AM
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The City of London Law Society (CLLS) Lifetime Achievement Award recognises the contribution a senior lawyer has made to the legal profession and the wider community over an entire career.
The Right Hon the Lord Collins of Mapesbury receives the CLLS Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding legal career, from City solicitor to Justice of the Supreme Court and his service to the legal profession. (Click here to view a video of Lord Collins' acceptance speech.)
Lord Collins read law at Cambridge University, and subsequently took a graduate degree in international law at Columbia University, New York. He qualified as a solicitor in 1968, and became a partner in Herbert Smith & Co in the City of London in 1971, specialising in international law.
In 1997, he became one of the first two solicitors to be appointed practising Queen's Counsel, and he was appointed a Deputy High Court judge in the same year. In 2000 he was the first solicitor to be appointed to the High Court bench (Chancery Division) direct from private practice, and in 2007 the first former solicitor to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. He was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in April 2009.
Having been the first solicitor in every other respect, he also became the first solicitor member of the Supreme Court, with his appointment as one of the twelve Justices, at its opening in October 2009.
Accepting the award, Lord Collins said: "I have often been asked whether I am glad I became a judge. What I say is that I have enjoyed every minute of it, but that I miss my colleagues in my old firm. I was very lucky to have worked with an enormously talented bunch of people, and to have had such interesting work so that I got a buzz every time I went into the office. That is why I am so pleased that this award is from the City of London Law Society. I owe a lot to the City."
Alexandra Marks (pictured above), the immediate past president of the CLLS, accepted the award on behalf of the Right Hon the Lord Collins of Mapesbury.
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