Courts and Tribunals Bill
25 March 2026
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Courts and Tribunals Bill House of Commons
00:02 - 00:44
Speaker 1
We're now sitting in public. The proceedings being broadcast. Before we start the hearing for the witnesses, do any members wish to make a declaration of interest in connection with the bill? No. If any of the interests are relevant to the members questioning or speech, they should declare them at the appropriate time as I've already said.
We will now hear oral evidence for some Brian Loverson We must stick to the timings of the program motion as the committee has agreed for this session so we have until 09:55. Could the witness please briefly introduce himself for the record and then present us with his evidence?
00:44 - 01:31
Speaker 2
My name is Brian Leveson. I was a practicing criminal lawyer from 1970. I became a silk in 1986. I went on to the high court bench in 2000, the Court of Appeal in 2006. I was the senior presiding judge for England and Wales between 2007, 2009, the inaugural chair of the Sentencing Council between 2010 and 2013, president of the Queen's Bench Division from 2013, and latterly head of criminal justice.
I retired at the compulsory age of 70 in 2019. I am now the investigatory powers commissioner. I've spent the last fifteen months my life seeking to review criminal justice, a subject which I thought I'd rather left behind.
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