Andrew Thomas Kaneen Corlett is the current First Deemster and

Clerk of the Rolls The Clerk of the Rolls () is a judge and Head of the Judiciary in the Isle of Man. This position was formerly distinct from that of the Deemsters but now the Clerk of the Rolls is held jointly with the office of First Deemster. The Clerk of the ...

of the

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who served as Second Deemster from 2011 to 2018,Corlett takes over as Second Deemster
BBC News, 17 February 2011 having previously held the title of Deputy Deemster from 2007. His appointment as First Deemster & Clerk of the Rolls was announced on 10 July 2018. Corlett was a litigation director with the

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law firm Simcocks since 2001. He specialised in public law, human rights and employment law and was previously a Government Advocate from 1995 to 2001, and a partner with Dickinson Cruickshank. Corlett was educated at

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on the island. He went up to

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in 1978, and graduated in law from the

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. He was called to the English and Manx Bars in 1984.

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