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Judicial Communications Office
News Release
11 June 2007
24/07
Lord Justice Scott Baker formally
takes on Assistant Deputy Coroner role
Lord Justice Scott Baker has now formally taken over as an Assistant Deputy Coroner of inner West London for the purposes of hearing the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997. The appointment was made by the Coroner for Inner West London, Dr Paul Knapman, and Lord Justice Scott Baker has been working in tandem with Baroness Butler-Sloss.
Lord Justice Scott Baker will preside over the pre-inquest hearing on 13 June, in succession to Baroness Butler-Sloss, and all future hearings.
The change in Coroners has also necessitated a change in the address for the website for the inquests, to
: www.scottbaker-inquests.gov.uk
Notes for Editors
- Lord Justice Scott Baker was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1961. He was appointed as a Recorder in 1976 and remained one until 1988 when he was appointed as a High Court Judge in the Family Division (1988-92), and then transferred to the Queen’s Bench Division in 1992. In 1978 he was appointed as a Queen’s Counsel. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2002.
- He has held a number of judicial and other offices, including; Presiding Judge for the Wales and Chester Circuit (1991-95), Lead Judge of the Administrative Court (2000-02). He was a member of the Government Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation (the Warnock Committee) 1982-84 and a member of the Parole Board 1999-2002. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford in 2003.
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