The Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos retires as Master of the Rolls with effect from 1 November 2026.

Background information

Sir Geoffrey Vos was educated at University College School, London, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Law. He was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1977, took silk in 1993 and was made an Honorary Bencher of King’s Inns Dublin in 2021. He was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 1999, assigned to the Chancery Division and served as the Chair of the Chancery Bar Association from 1999 to 2001. He sat in the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey between 2005 and 2009, and in the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands between 2008 and 2009. He was made Chairman of the Bar Council in 2007 and was Chairman of the Social Mobility Foundation from 2008 to 2011.

He was appointed a High Court Judge in 2009 and in 2013 he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council. He was President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary from January 2015 to June 2016.

Sir Geoffrey Vos was appointed Chancellor of the High Court in October 2016. He was appointed Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice on 11 January 2021.

He is an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and was awarded an honorary LLD degree by the University of Hull in January 2023. He was Treasurer of Lincoln’s Inn for 2023.

He is a member of the Council and Executive of the European Law Institute and Chair of the Steering Group of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts. He is also a Member of the LawtechUK Panel and Chair of the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce and International Jurisdiction Taskforce.

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