1. Dame Elizabeth Gloster, Lady Popplewell, DBE, PC was born on 5 June 1949 and is a British lawyer who was a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Vice-President of the Civil Division.
12 Facts About Elizabeth Gloster
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Elizabeth Gloster was the first female judge of the Commercial Court.
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Elizabeth Gloster was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1971.
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Elizabeth Gloster was appointed a judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey in 1993 and a Recorder in 1995.
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On 21 April 2004, Elizabeth Gloster was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and allocated to the Queen's Bench Division.
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Elizabeth Gloster heard a case in 2012 involving two Russian oligarchs in which Boris Berezovsky claimed Roman Abramovich had intimidated him into selling shares in Russian oil giant Sibneft.
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Elizabeth Gloster found Berezovsky to be "an inherently unreliable witness" and found in favour of Abramovich.
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On 9 April 2013, Dame Elizabeth Gloster was appointed a Lady Justice of Appeal and consequently appointed to the Privy Council.
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Elizabeth Gloster became Vice-President of the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal on 7 December 2016, on the retirement of Lord Justice Moore-Bick.
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Elizabeth Gloster retired from the Court of Appeal on 1 June 2018.
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Elizabeth Gloster serves as a commercial court judge, applying English Common Law, on the ADGM Courts.
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In 2005, Elizabeth Gloster was divorced from Stanley Brodie QC.