Ingrid Ann Simler, Lady Simler, DBE, PC (born 17 September 1963) is a

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. She was previously a judge of the

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Career

Born to a Jewish family, she was educated at

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and the

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. She was called to the bar by

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in 1987 and became a QC in 2006. Simler was appointed a

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in 2002 and was a judge of the

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(Queen's Bench Division) from 2013. She was President of the

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for a term of three years from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2018. On 27 June 2018, it was announced that Simler was to be appointed to the Court of Appeal, an appointment she took up on 2 July 2019. Simler was chair of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council, and at the date of announcement of her appointment to the High Court bench in 2013 she was head of her chambers. She is the chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee of the Inner Temple. On 17 October 2023, the

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announced that Simler would become a Justice of the

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. She was sworn in on 14 November 2023. In November 2024, Simler was appointed as the Visitor of

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, succeeding

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Personal life

She married John Bernstein in 1991, and has two sons and two daughters.

List of decided cases

*'' Mercer v Alternative Future Group Ltd'' 024UKSC 12 *'' Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley''

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For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers is a UK Supreme Court decision on the definition of the terms ''man'' and ''woman'' in the Equality Act 2010. The case was brought by For Women Scotland (FWS), a gender-critical advocacy group; in 2022, FWS requested a judicial review of s ...

'' 025UKSC 4

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Privy Council biography
1963 births Living people People educated at Henrietta Barnett School Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University of Amsterdam alumni Members of the Inner Temple Queen's Bench Division judges English women judges Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire English Jews English King's Counsel Lady justices of appeal Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom 21st-century British women judges Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Lawyers awarded damehoods {{UK-law-bio-stub