Nicholas Allan Roy Wilson, Lord Wilson of Culworth PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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 (born 9 May 1945) is a British

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 judge. On 26 May 2011, he became a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

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, having previously served as a Lord Justice of Appeal

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 since 2005.

Wilson was called to the Bar in 1967 (Inner Temple

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), and became a Queen's Counsel

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 in 1987. He was appointed a Recorder

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 the same year. In 1993, he became a bencher and was appointed to the High Court

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, sitting in the Family Division, whereupon he was appointed a knight bachelor

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. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal

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 in 2005, at which time he was also appointed to the Privy Council

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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. On 26 May 2011, he joined the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

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, succeeding Lord Saville of Newdigate

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and gaining the courtesy style "Lord Wilson of Culworth" for life.