Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption

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The Right Honourable

Lord Sumption

OBE QC FSA FRHistS
Lord Sumption 2013.jpg
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
In office
11 January 2012 – 9 December 2018
Nominated byKenneth Clarke
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded byThe Lord Collins of Mapesbury
Succeeded byThe Lord Sales
Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong
Assumed office
18 December 2019
Appointed byCarrie Lam
Personal details
Born (1948-12-09) 9 December 1948 (age 72)
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Teresa Sumption, née Whelan
Children2 daughters; 1 son
ResidenceLondon, England
EducationEton College
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford
OccupationBarrister; judge
ProfessionLaw
Chinese name
Chinese岑耀信
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Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, OBE, PC, FSA, FRHistS (born 9 December 1948), is a British author, medieval historian and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018. Sumption was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court on 11 January 2012, succeeding Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury.[1] Exceptionally, he was appointed to the Supreme Court directly from the practising Bar, without having been a full-time judge. He retired from the Supreme Court on 9 December 2018 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70.

Sumption is well known for his role as a barrister in many legal cases. They include appearances in the Hutton Inquiry on HM Government's behalf,[2] in the Three Rivers case,[3] his representation of former Cabinet Minister Stephen Byers and the Department for Transport in the Railtrack private shareholders' action against the British Government in 2005,[4] for defending HM Government in an appeal hearing brought by Binyam Mohamed,[5] and for successfully defending Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in a private lawsuit brought by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.[6]

A former academic, Sumption was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2003 New Year Honours[7] and is also known for writing a substantial narrative history of the Hundred Years' War, so far in four volumes. Sumption has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sumption criticised lockdowns and associated British government policies.[8]

Early life and education[]

Jonathan Sumption was born on 9 December 1948. He is the eldest of the four children of Anthony Sumption,[9] a decorated naval officer and barrister, and Hilda Hedigan; their marriage was dissolved in 1979.[10] He was educated at Eton College, where at 15 he was at the bottom of his class.[11] He read Medieval History at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1967 to 1970, graduating with a first.[12][13][14] He was elected a fellow of Magdalen College, teaching and writing books on medieval history from 1971 to 1975 before leaving to pursue a career in law.[12][14] Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1975, he then pursued a successful legal practice in commercial law.

In the 1970s, Sumption served as an adviser to the Conservative MP and Cabinet Minister Keith Joseph.[15][16] In 1974 Joseph and Margaret Thatcher together founded the Centre for Policy Studies to act as a think tank for the Conservative Party, and Sumption became one of its earliest employees, working as a speechwriter for Joseph.[17] Sumption and Joseph co-wrote a 1979 book, Equality, seeking to show that "no convincing arguments for an equal society have ever been advanced" and that "no such society has ever been successfully created".[16]

In the late 1970s Sumption was a regular contributor to The Sunday Telegraph.

Legal career[]

Jonathan Sumption QC in 1986

Sumption was appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1986 at the relatively young age of 38, and elected a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1991. He has served as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division, and a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Jersey[18] and the Guernsey Court of Appeal.

He was a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission, until his appointment to the Supreme Court. Sumption was joint head of Brick Court Chambers.[4]

On 30 November 2007, when a practising barrister, Sumption successfully represented himself before Mr Justice Collins in a judicial review application in the Administrative Court concerning proposed development near his home at Greenwich.[19]

Earnings as a barrister[]

The Guardian once described him as being a member of the "million-a-year club", the elite group of barristers earning over a million pounds a year.[20][12] In a letter to The Guardian in 2001, he compared his "puny £1.6 million a year" to the vastly larger amounts that comparable individuals in business, sports and entertainment are paid.[20]

For a four-week trial (and all the preparatory work) in the UK in 2005 he charged £800,000 to represent HM Government in the largest class action in the UK, brought by 49,500 private shareholders of the collapsed national railway infrastructure company Railtrack.[21] The Government had money and reputation at stake, the case examining some of the actions of HM Government, especially of former Transport Secretary Stephen Byers. Byers became the only former Cabinet Minister to be cross-examined in the High Court in relation to his actions in modern times: the British Government won the case.

Sumption earned £7.8 million for his defence of Roman Abramovich in the 2012 case Berezovsky v Abramovich. This is believed to be the highest fee ever earned in British legal history.[22]

Judicial career[]

On 4 May 2011 Sumption's appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court was announced.[23] Upon his subsequent swearing-in on 11 January 2012,[1] he assumed the title of Lord Sumption pursuant to a Royal Warrant (by which all members of the Supreme Court, even if they do not hold a peerage title, are accorded the style of "Lord" for life).[24][25] Sumption was sworn of the Privy Council on 14 December 2011 in advance of his joining the Court, whose Justices also serve as members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.[26] He retired from the Supreme Court on 9 December 2018.[27] Although as a retired justice of the Supreme Court he would have been eligible for appointment to its Supplementary Panel,[28] he was not so appointed.[29]

Sumption is the first lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court without previously serving as a full-time judge since its inception in 2009. There were only five such appointments as Law Lords to the Court's predecessor, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.[30] Two were Scots lawyers: Lord Macmillan in 1930 and Lord Reid in 1948; the others were: Lord Macnaghten (1887), Lord Carson (1921) and Lord Radcliffe (1949).

After his retirement, Sumption was appointed as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on 13 December 2019 by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam.[31] After making his pledge of allegiance to the Hong Kong SAR of the People’s Republic of China as part of the judicial oath,[32] Lord Sumption officially commenced his office as a Hong Kong judge on 18 December 2019.[33][31] He had previously appeared as counsel in the Court of Final Appeal in a number of cases.[34]

Historian[]

The Hundred Years' War[]

Sumption's narrative history of the Hundred Years' War between England and France (of which four volumes have so far been published, between 1990 and 2015) has been widely praised as "earning a place alongside Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades" according to Frederic Raphael, and as a work that "deploys an enormous variety of documentary material ... and interprets it with imaginative and intelligent sympathy" and is "elegantly written" (Rosamond McKitterick, Evening Standard); for Allan Massie it is "An enterprise on a truly Victorian scale ... What is most impressive about this work, apart from the author's mastery of his material and his deployment of it, is his political intelligence".[35]

Five volumes are planned.[12] Volume I (covering the years from the funeral of Charles IV of France in 1329 to the Surrender of Calais in 1347) was first published in 1990. Volume II (covering the years from 1347 to 1369) was published in 1999. Volume III (covering the years from 1369 to 1399) appeared in 2009. Volume IV (covering the years from 1399 to 1422) appeared in 2015, the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt.

Sumption has been praised for a clipped and polished prose style, which he credits to his unwillingness to employ cliché. He admires Gibbon but points out "if anybody wrote like him today they’d be dismissed as a pompous fart".[36]

Political views[]

Sumption has been described as "conservative neo-liberal and libertarian."[37] In 1974, he worked with Conservative MP Keith Joseph at the Centre for Policy Studies, a Conservative Party think-tank. However, he was a Labour supporter at the time and later voted for Tony Blair.[38]

He has said that an attempt to rapidly achieve gender equality in the Supreme Court through quotas or positive discrimination could end up discouraging the best applicants, as they would no longer believe that the process would select on merit, and "have appalling consequences for justice".[39][40] He has criticised the judicial appointments process in the United States, where politicians quiz judicial appointees on their views, as "discreditable" and described former Attorney General for England & Wales Geoffrey Cox's proposal for a similar system as, "one of the most ill-thought-out ideas ever to emerge from a resentful government frustrated by its inability to do whatever it likes".[41]

He has criticised the historical curriculum in English schools as "appallingly narrow", warning that by forcing English schoolchildren to study 1918–1945 in isolation they "are being taught about Germany and Europe during its most aberrant period".[36] He believes that history should not be apologised for once perpetrators of injustices are no longer alive, describing apologies for events such as the Irish Famine and the Armenian Genocide as "morally worthless", although saying that, "we have a duty to understand why things happened as they did" and there are "lessons to be learned".[42] In the wake of Black Lives Matter activity following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 in Minneapolis, the United States, Sumption criticised the removal of monuments, arguing that people of the past did not share the values of the present and calling it "an irrational and absurd thing to do".[42]

Brexit[]

He voted to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, describing the decision to leave as, "a serious mistake that will do lasting damage to our economy"[43] and that, "Britain will be dominated by the European Union whether we belong to it or not".[44] Nevertheless, he believed there were strong arguments for Brexit on the grounds of national sovereignty and identity.[45] He said that leavers, "were not mad. They are not irrational, not naive and have not been deceived".[43] He wrote that, "All of these patronising explanations of their decision seems to me to be mere attempts to evade unpalatable truths."[46]

Judicial Interference in Politics[]

Sumption has written in detail about his concerns regarding the relationship between the judiciary and politics in several lectures and books, most notably his books Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics (2019) and Law in a Time of Crisis (2021). He argues that since the 1960s, but particularly in recent years, the courts have undermined the political processes and institutions of parliament by judging issues that should be decided by elected politicians and ministers. He specifically critiques the expansion of judicial review, saying that, "It has tended to intrude into to areas that belong to parliament and ministers answerable to parliament",[47] and has criticised the interpretative powers conferred by the Human Rights Act 1998. He argues that political figures are more democratically accountable to the public for decisions they make, unlike judges who are unelected and difficult to remove from office. He has criticised the European Court of Human Rights, which interprets and adjudicates on the European Convention on Human Rights. He has compared the values of the Strasbourg court and those of the post-war dictatorships of eastern Europe, stating that "they both employ the concept of democracy as a generalised term of approval for a set of political values".[37][48] He describes the text of the Convention as "wholly admirable"[49] but argues that the Strasburg court has interpreted and developed the rights very broadly to go beyond their original meaning and to the extent that the rights cover issues which are properly the remit of elected legislatures. He has criticised the "living instrument" doctrine, particularly regarding Article 8 of the Convention, which he describes as, "the most striking example of this kind of mission creep."[50] He has said that if there was no significant change in the approach of the Strasburg court then he would support withdrawing from the Convention.[51]

COVID-19 pandemic[]

Sumption has been highly critical of the British government's lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic on civil libertarian grounds, seeing them as a slippery slope,[52][37] while also criticising the legal basis for their enactment and the enforceability of COVID-19 control measures.[53][54][55][56] He has also questioned whether the virus is serious enough to justify restrictive measures, while also arguing that the effects of lockdowns may be worse than the effects of the actual virus, a view which has minimal scientific or evidentiary support.[8][57][58]

On 17 January 2021, Sumption appeared on The Big Questions to discuss the question of whether the lockdown was "punishing too many for the greater good", and said (with reference to the medical concept of quality-adjusted life years) that "I don’t accept that all lives are of equal value. My children’s and my grandchildren’s life is worth much more than mine because they’ve got a lot more of it ahead". When a cancer patient taking part in the debate said that he was saying that her life was "not valuable", Sumption interrupted her, saying: "I didn’t say your life was not valuable, I said it was less valuable."[59] Health experts have criticised his views, stating that the concept of "quality adjusted life years" is primarily useful for debates on the allocation of scarce healthcare resources, and may not be useful for discussion of a nationwide lockdown.[60]

In July 2021, Full Fact concluded in a fact-checking article that Sumption had "made several mistakes with Covid-19 data when talking about the disease" on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. This included his belief that many recorded COVID-19 deaths were people who had the virus but had died of unrelated causes, that people who had died of COVID-19 "would probably have died within a year after", and that only "hundreds" of people without pre-existing medical conditions in the UK had died of COVID-19 (the true figure is 15,883 in England alone).[61]

Personal life[]

Sumption met Teresa Whelan at his sixth birthday party and they later married shortly after he graduated from Oxford. They have two daughters, one son, and five grandchildren. He lives in Greenwich and has a second home, a chateau in the village of Berbiguières in the south of France.[11]

Sumption speaks French and Italian fluently, and reads Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.[12] He "rarely learned them using guides, instead I preferred to muddle on through a text with a dictionary by my side".[36]

An opera lover, he serves as a director of the English National Opera and as a governor of the Royal Academy of Music.[62]

Full style[]

  • The Rt Hon Lord Sumption, OBE, FRHistS, FSA.

Notable cases[]

As counsel[]

As judge[]

Two books are dedicated to Sumption's contribution to private and public law respectively.[63] The following cases are an excerpt of his contribution to the law:

  • Kelly v Fraser [2012] UKPC 25 [15], [2013] 1 AC 450[64] - on apparent authority based on an agent's misrepresentation that the principal had approved the transaction
  • Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd & Ors [2013] UKSC 34, [2013] 2 AC 415[65] - on piercing the corporate veil
  • Bank Mellat v Her Majesty's Treasury (No. 2) [2013] UKSC 39, [2014] 1 AC 700[66] - On the test of proportionality and the lawfulness of the UK government's sanctions of Bank Mellat
  • Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Premium Aircraft Interiors UK Ltd [2013] UKSC 46, [2014] AC 160[67] - on the rule of res judicata
  • Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria [2014] UKSC 10, [2014] AC 1189[68] - on the correct construction of the Limitation Act 1980 with important remarks on the nature of constructive trust and a claim of knowing receipt
  • Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13
  • R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice [2014] UKSC 38, [2015] AC 657[69] - On the compatibility of the prohibition of assisting suicide with the European Convention on Human Rights
  • R (Lord Carlile of Berriew) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKSC 60, [2015] AC 945[70] - the role of the courts when applying the proportionality test in cases concerning interferences with qualified human rights
  • Pham v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] UKSC 19, [2015] 1 WLR 1591[71] - on the development of the common law test of unreasonableness and its relationship with the proportionality test
  • Bilta (UK) Ltd v Nazir (No 2) [2015] UKSC 23, [2016] AC 1[72] - on the rules of attribution in company law
  • Papadimitriou v Crédit Agricole Corpn and Investment Bank [2015] UKPC 13, [2015] 1 WLR 4265[73] - On the fault requirement necessary for liability in knowing receipt
  • Bunge SA v Nidera BV [2015] UKSC 43, [2015] 3 All ER 1082[74] - on the proper assessment date of contractual damages
  • Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi (Rev 3) [2015] UKSC 67, [2016] AC 1172[75] - on the law of penalty and liquidated damages clause
  • Angove’s Pty Ltd v Bailey [2016] UKSC 47, [2016] 1 WLR 3179 [76] - on proprietary restitution
  • Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42, [2017] AC 467[77] - dissenting judgment on illegal contracts
  • JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov and another (No 14) [2018] UKSC 19, [2020] AC 727[78] - on tort of economic loss (joint judgment with Lord Lloyd-Jones)
  • Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd [2018] UKSC 24, [2019] AC 119[79] - on the effect of a No Oral Modification clause in a contract

Books[]

Volumes III and IV of Sumption's Hundred Years' War series
  • Pilgrimage: An Image of Medieval Religion (1975) ISBN 0-571-10339-1, re-issued in 2003 as The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God ISBN 1-58768-025-4
  • The Albigensian Crusade (1978) ISBN 0-571-11064-9
  • Equality (1979, with Sir Keith Joseph) ISBN 0-7195-3651-0
  • The Hundred Years War I: Trial by Battle (1990) ISBN 0-571-13895-0; paperback (1999) ISBN 978-0-571-20095-5
  • The Hundred Years War II: Trial by Fire (1999) ISBN 0-571-13896-9; paperback (2001) ISBN 0-571-20737-5
  • The Hundred Years War III: Divided Houses (2009) ISBN 0-571-13897-7
  • The Hundred Years War IV: Cursed Kings (2015) ISBN 0-571-27454-4
  • Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics (2019) ISBN 1-788-16372-9
  • Law in a Time of Crisis (2021) ISBN 9781788167116[80]

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