Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson has been appointed as the next Master of the Rolls, succeeding Lord Neuberger, who will assume the role of Supreme Court president later this year.

Dyson's much-touted appointment was announced today (29 August), with the new role set to take effect from 1 October this year.

The news comes after Neuberger was named the next president of the UK Supreme Court last month. He will take over from current president Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers in October, after almost three years as Master of the Rolls.

The move marks a return to the Court of Appeal for Dyson, who will take up the second-highest judicial post in the country – after the Lord Chief Justice – after two and a half years on the Supreme Court bench.

Dyson (pictured) was the last to join the top court in April 2010 after it separated from the House of Lords in October 2009. He moved to the Supreme Court from the Court of Appeal, where he had been since 2001 and held the role of deputy head of civil justice from 2003 to 2006.

Dyson was called to the Bar in 1968 and took silk in 1982. He was appointed to the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, in 1993 and was presiding judge of the Technology and Construction Court from 1998 to 2001. It is not yet known who will replace him on the Supreme Court bench.

The appointment was made following the recommendation of an independent selection panel chaired by Phillips, alongside the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, the chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission, Christopher Stephens, and judicial appointments commissioner Dame Valerie Strachan.

For more, see Neuberger to succeed Phillips as second Supreme Court president.

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