Clare Faulds (born 1949/50) is a Manx lawyer and former

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. She was the first woman admitted to the Manx bar and has also worked in the

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Career

Faulds qualified as an advocate of the

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in 1973. She was the first woman admitted to the Manx bar. She has also worked as the

from 1996 until 2014. In a 2001 discussion, she said that exhuming bodies when people move houses was not symptomatic of a decline in faith. In 2004, Faulds left the

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to take up a senior

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role in the

. She took the role partly due to her interest in wildlife. As a senior magistrate, Faulds dealt with around five

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s a week, as of 2006. She later worked as acting Supreme Court judge, before moving back to the Isle of Man. In 2011, Faulds spoke at an event to explain the Manx political system prior to the Isle of Man

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. In 2014, Faulds returned to the Falkland Islands to work as a senior magistrate and

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and also left her role as Vicar General of Sodor and Man. In this role, she was also the senior magistrate for the

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, until she was succeeded by Martine Kushner in December 2016. In 2015, she was the judge for a case involving allegations of misreported catches of fish. In 2016, she was judge for a case of illegal animal waste disposal. From 2018 to 2020, she worked as an interim Senior Magistrate. Faulds has also worked as Chairman of the Isle of Man Income Tax Commissioners, and for Britannia International Limited, the Isle of Man subsidiary of Britannia Building Society.

Personal life

Faulds is married with three sons, one of whom is a doctor. Her husband has worked as a senior editor of the Manx ''

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'', and as the

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on the Isle of Man. Faulds has a

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from

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. In 2010, Faulds gave a talk about wildlife in the Falklands Islands. In 2012, she joined the

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References

External links

Isle of Man Law Society profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Faulds, Clare Manx lawyers British women lawyers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Cardiff University British emigrants to the Falkland Islands