Biographies

The Rt. Hon Lord Justice Matthew Thorpe

Educated at Stowe and Balliol College, Oxford.

Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1961. A mixed practice until taking Silk in 1980, thereafter specialising in family law. Counsel to the Cleveland Inquiry 1987. Appointed a judge of the High Court, Family Division, in 1988. Appointed Lord Justice of Appeal in 1995.

Chair of : President's International Committee, President's interdisciplinary Committee, President's Ancillary Relief Advisory group, the National Interdisciplinary Forum, The Interdisciplinary Education & Training Committee and Parentline Plus.

President of: Mediation in Divorce.

Governor of: Thomas Coram Foundation.

Trustee of: St Saviour's Priory