11 February 2016
Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, is to retire at the start of October, according to a spokesperson from the Judicial Office. He will then be 73, and could have carried on until the age of 75. John Dyson, who attended Leeds Grammar School and then Wadham College, Oxford, was a Supreme Court Justice from 2010 to 2012. He has spoken out against legal aid cuts and “disproportionate” court fees in recent months, and warned that the rise in litigants in person may have led to injustices. The process to appoint his successor is in progress.
