Beverley Lang

Dame Beverley Ann Macnaughton Lang, DBE KC (born 13 October 1955), styled The Hon. Ms Justice Lang, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

The Honourable
Ms Justice Lang
DBE
Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom
High Court Judge
King's Bench Division
Assumed office
2011
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
Personal details
Born (1955-10-13) 13 October 1955
Alma materLady Margaret Hall, Oxford

She was educated at Wycombe Abbey School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1978 and worked as a lecturer at the University of East Anglia from 1978 to 1981. She was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2000, Recorder from 2006 to 2011, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2011.[1] On 15 March 2012, Lang was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Dame Commander (DBE).[2]

She was elected an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall in 2011.[3] She is a granddaughter of Archibald Orr Lang.

In a case concerning Transport for London's Streetspace scheme, her January 2021 ruling in favour of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association and United Trade Action Group was "comprehensively"[4] overturned by the Court of Appeal. The appeal justices described her choice of language in the January ruling as "extraordinary and not right".[5]

References
  1. ‘LANG, Dame Beverley Ann Macnaughton’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  2. "No. 60097". The London Gazette. 23 March 2012. p. 5859.
  3. "The Hon Ms Justice Lang DBE". Lady Margaret Hall. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  4. Lydall, Ross (4 August 2021). "Court of Appeal justices criticise judge over 'seriously flawed' low-traffic scheme ruling". Evening Standard. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  5. "United Trade -v- Transport for London". judiciary.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2021.


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