David Lloyd Jones

Who is David Lloyd Jones?

Sir David Lloyd Jones is a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Chairman of the Law Commission since 1 August 2012.

Lloyd Jones attended Pontypridd Boys’ Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge, where he served as a fellow from 1975 to 1991.

Lloyd Jones was called to the bar in 1975. He became a Recorder in 1994 and served as a junior Crown Counsel from 1997 to 1999. Lloyd Jones became a Queen's Counsel in 1999. On 3 October 2005, he was appointed as a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood, and was assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He served as Presiding Judge on the Welsh Circuit and Chair of the Lord Chancellor’s Standing Committee on the Welsh Language from 2008 to 2011. On 1 October 2012, Lloyd Jones was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal, and he was appointed to the Privy Council on 7 November 2012.

He was made an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University in 2012.