Dame Julia Wendy Macur, DBE (born 17 April 1957), known as The Rt Hon Lady Justice Macur, is a British judge of the

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. Between April 2017 and December 2019, she was the

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. She studied law at the

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, graduating in 1978. She was

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in 1979, and was a practising

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on the

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between 1979 and 2005, working in

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. She was appointed

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in 1998, and was a

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of the

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between 1999 and 2005, when she was appointed to the High Court. On 1 October 2013, she was appointed a

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. In November 2012 she was appointed by

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, the terms of the Waterhouse inquiry into the

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, which had reported in 2000. In 2015, it was announced she would become

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from 1 January 2016 and

from 1 January 2018; this was brought forward to April 2017 on the appointment of Lord Justice Fulford as the

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