Barristers
Unlike the other armed forces, the Royal Navy has no separate uniformed legal branch. A few Supply Officers are trained as barristers and one Captain (S) serves as Chief Naval Judge Advocate (CNJA). In 1979 the then CNJA (Captain David Williamson) was invited to sit in the Crown Court as a Deputy Circuit Judge (later the title became Deputy Recorder). Others followed in his trail and some continued judicial activity after their retirement from the Active List of the Royal Navy. By the mid-1990s, two Captains (S) and a Commander (S) who retired from the Royal Navy were appointed as civilian Circuit Judges: His Honour Judge Lyons, His Honour Judge Sessions and His Honour Judge Thorpe; His Honour Judge Robert Fraser was appointed a Circuit Judge on his retirement as Commodore in 2007. In the Navy List 2006, 26 male and female Logistics Officers were listed as Barristers.
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