Interview with Lady Rose, a Justice of the Supreme Court

This is a Legal Biography Project event.

Speaker: Dame Vivien Rose DBE, interviewed by Professor Ross Cranston

Dame Vivien Rose DBE, Lady Rose, became a Justice of the Supreme Court in April 2021. Her path to the Supreme Court has been unusual. After graduating in law at both Cambridge and Oxford she practiced as a barrister for 10 years. She then joined the Civil Service and was a senior lawyer in HM Treasury, the Ministry of Defence and with the Speaker of the House of Commons. In 2006 she took her first judicial role as a part-time chair of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. After further part-time judicial posts she was appointed as a High Court judge in the Chancery Division in 2013, then to the Court of Appeal in 2019.