Dame Beverley Ann Macnaughton Lang, (born 13 October 1955), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Lang, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. She was educated at

Wycombe Abbey School Wycombe Abbey is a private girls' boarding and day school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. The school was founded in 1896 by Dame Frances Dove (1847–1942), who was previously headmistress of St Leonards School in Scotland. Its ...

and

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. She was called to the Bar at

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in 1978 and worked as a lecturer at the

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from 1978 to 1981. She was appointed a

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in 2000, Recorder from 2006 to 2011, and judge of the

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(Queen's Bench Division) since 2011. On 15 March 2012, Lang was appointed to the

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as a Dame Commander (DBE). She was elected an honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall in 2011. She is a granddaughter of Archibald Orr Lang.

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