Lord Nicholas Phillips of Worth Matravers will become the new Lord Chief Justice.
Downing Street has announced that the appointment will take effect when the current Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, retires on 30 September 2005.
Called to the bar in 1962, Lord Phillips, 67, was made a law lord in January 1999, following an eight-year spell as a High Court judge and four years at the Court of Appeal.
He became Master of the Rolls in 2000, but is to be replaced by Clarke LJ.
A new post of President of the Queen’s Bench Division will be taken by Judge LJ.
References: EGi Legal News 17/06/2005
