20 Facts About Geoffrey Vos

Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos was born on 22 April 1955 and is a judge in England and Wales.

Geoffrey Charles Vos was born on 22 April 1955 to Bernard Vos and Pamela Celeste Rose Vos.

Geoffrey Vos was educated at University College School, London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Geoffrey Vos took silk in 1993 and served as chair of the Chancery Bar Association from 1999 to 2001 and as chair of the Bar Council in 2007.

Sir Geoffrey Vos began his judicial career with appointment as a deputy High Court Judge in 1999.

Geoffrey Vos sat in the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey between 2005 and 2009, and in the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands between 2008 and 2009.

Geoffrey Vos was appointed a High Court Judge in October 2009 and was assigned to the Chancery Division.

Geoffrey Vos was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013.

Geoffrey Vos was President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary between 2014 and June 2016.

Geoffrey Vos became Chancellor of the High Court on 24 October 2016.

Sir Geoffrey Vos was appointed the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales on 11 January 2021, succeeding Lord Etherton.

Geoffrey Vos is chair of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives and of the Forum on Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research.

Geoffrey Vos is a member of the LawtechUK Panel and chair of its UK Jurisdiction Taskforce.

In March 2021, Sir Geoffrey Vos disclosed that the Civil Justice Council was "looking at the extent to which litigants should be forced to mediate and if so, in what circumstances".

Sir Geoffrey Vos was chairman of the Social Mobility Foundation from 2008 to 2011.

Geoffrey Vos is Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn for 2023, was made an honorary bencher of the King's Inn, Dublin in 2021, and is an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Geoffrey Vos was awarded an honorary LLD degree by the University of Hull in January 2023.

Geoffrey Vos is a member of the Council and Executive of the European Law Institute and of the Steering Group of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts.

Sir Geoffrey Vos is a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club and an honorary member of the Worcestershire Golf Club.

Geoffrey Vos is a member of both the Liberal Jewish Synagogue St John's Wood and the Herefordshire Jewish community.