Chairs
The chair of the Law Commission is usually a High Court judge. Chairs have been promoted to the Court of Appeal soon after or shortly before the end of their terms until 2008, with one exception: Mr Justice Cooke (whose term as chair ended with his death in 1978). Mr Justice Etherton was promoted to the Court of Appeal approximately two years into his term, and the most recent incumbents were appointed near the beginning of their terms as chair.
- Leslie Scarman (1965–1973)
- Samuel Cooke (1973–1978)
- Michael Kerr (1978–1981)
- Ralph Gibson (1981–1985)
- Roy Beldam (1985–1989)
- Peter Gibson (1990–1992)
- Henry Brooke (1993–1995)
- Mary Arden (1996–1999)
- Robert Carnwath (1999–2002)
- Roger Toulson (2002–2006)
- Terence Etherton (2006–2009)
- James Munby (2009–2012)
- David Lloyd Jones (2012–present)
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