Pension agreed unanimously at their meeting on 18 October to the election of those named below as Honorary Benchers of The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn:
• Professor Simon Armitage CBE, FRSL – The Poet Laureate, Professor of Poetry at Leeds University and formerly Professor of Poetry at Oxford University
• Professor Julia Black PBA – President of the British Academy and Professor of law
• Lord Evans of Weardale KCB DL – Former Director General of the Security Service; currently Chair Committee on Standards in Public Life
• Hon. Justice Stephen Gageler AC – Senior High Court Judge of Australia, Chief Justice of Australia Designate
• Justice Katerina Stamatiou – President of the Supreme Court of Cyprus – Member of the Inn
• Justice Sharise Weiner SC – Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals in South Africa – Member of the Inn
The Treasurer moved, and it was ordered, in accordance with Standing Order 13:28, that Bishop Michael Doe, the former Inn’s Preacher, be elected as an Honorary Bencher of The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn under the Fast Track procedure.