Mary Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall
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Mary Howarth Arden, Baroness Mance, Template:Post-nominals, PC (born 23 January 1947), known professionally as Lady Arden of Heswall, is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Before that, she was a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Early life and education
Mary Howarth Arden was born in Liverpool, the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Cuthbert Arden, of Heswall, Cheshire, a solicitor who had served with the Royal Garrison Artillery, and Mary Margaret (née Smith).<ref>Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2011, p. 1024</ref><ref>Burke's Peerage 2003, vol. 1, p. 133</ref> Her grandfather was a partner in Gamon Arden and Co., a Liverpool firm of solicitors. Her father and brother, Roger, joined the family firm which merged with Hill Dickinson in 2007.<ref name="LJMU1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was brought up in south Liverpool and educated at Huyton College.<ref name="LJMU1"/> She read law at Girton College, Cambridge, where she gained a starred first and an LLM,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and an LLM degree at Harvard Law School in 1970 as a Kennedy Scholar.<ref name="LJMU1"/>
Career
She was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1971,<ref name="CATJ">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and joined Lincoln's Inn in 1973. She practised at Erskine Chambers from 1971 to 1993, mainly in company law.<ref name="LJMU1"/> She became a QC in 1986, and served as Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster.<ref name="LJMU2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She is an Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, Royal Holloway, University of London, and of Liverpool John Moores University.<ref name="LJMU2"/>
She was appointed to the High Court on 30 April 1993,<ref name="CATJ"/><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> becoming the first female High Court judge to be assigned to the Chancery Division. As is customary, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) at the same time. Arden was chairman of the Law Commission from 1996 to 1999.<ref name="CATJ"/> On 2 October 2000, she was also appointed to the Court of Appeal.<ref name="CATJ"/><ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>
Other posts held by Arden include her membership of the Steering Group of the Company Law Review, and a current post as Head of International Judicial Relations for England and Wales.<ref name="CATJ"/> She is a member of the advisory board, Centre of Commercial Law; of the Council of the Statute Law Society; of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, as well as being President of the Trinity Hall Law Society, and of the Association of Women Barristers.<ref name="LJMU1"/> She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.<ref name="ITL">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Arden's appointment to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, replacing her husband Lord Mance on the court, was announced in June 2018, to take effect on 1 October 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On entering her office, she took the judicial courtesy title of Lady Arden of Heswall. She was the only woman out of the eleven judges of the court between the retirement of Lady Black of Derwent in January 2021 and the appointment of Lady Black's successor, Lady Rose of Colmworth, in April 2021.
By the time she retired in 2022, she was the eldest of the justices (Lord Lloyd-Jones was the second-eldest at 69). Following the retirement (and death) of Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore in 2020 she was the only remaining member to have held judicial office before 31 March 1995 and was thus allowed to retire at 75 instead of 70.
Personal life
She married Jonathan Mance (now Lord Mance, former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) in the Lady Chapel at Liverpool Cathedral in 1973; they have three children.<ref name="LJMU1" />
Arden's husband, Lord Mance, joined the Queen's Bench Division in October 1993, making them the first married couple to sit on the High Court bench. The couple also became the first married couple both to sit on the Court of Appeal.
By virtue of her marriage, Lady Arden of Heswall is entitled to be styled The Lady Mance, but is instead known by her own judicial title.
Honours
- She was appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1986.
- She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Civil Division on 30 April 1993 upon being made a High Court Judge. This gave her the right to be referred to as Dame Mary Arden.
- She was elected an Honorary Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge in 1995.<ref name=":0" />
- She was appointed to the Court of Appeal on 2 October 2000. At this time She was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. This gave her the honorific style "The Right Honourable" for life.
- She is an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway, University of London and Liverpool John Moores University.
- In 2002 she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) from the University of Nottingham.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Judgments
Arden's judgments include:
- Hutchinson Personal Communications Ltd v. Hook Advertising Ltd<ref>[1995] FSR 365</ref> - English contract law case, ruling that clients cannot take creative work pitched to them speculatively without a prior agreement.<ref name="campaign2011">The history of advertising 17 - Chris Joseph's silver hook.campaignlive.co.uk, 3 June 2011</ref>
- Price Meats v Barclays Bank<ref>[2000] 2 All ER (Comm) 346</ref>
- Bankway Properties Ltd v Pensfold-Dunsford<ref>[2001] 1 WLR 1369</ref>
- Pennington v Waine<ref>[2002] EWCA Civ 227, [2002] 1 WLR 2075</ref> - English trusts law concerning the requirements for a trust to be properly constituted, and the operation of constructive trusts.
- Item Software (UK) Ltd v Fassihi and others<ref>[2004] EWCA Civ 1244</ref>
- Citibank v MBIA<ref>[2007] EWCA Civ 11</ref>
- Collier v P & MJ Wright (Holdings) Ltd<ref>[2007] EWCA Civ 1329, [2008] 1 WLR 643</ref> - English contract law concerning the doctrine of consideration and promissory estoppel in relation to "alteration promises".
- McCarthy v Secretary of State for the Home Department<ref>[2008] 3 C.M.L.R. 7</ref>
- C (A Child) v XYZ CC<ref>[2008] Fam. 54</ref>
- R. (on the application of S) v Secretary of State for the Home Office<ref>[2009] EWCA Civ 142</ref>
- Cooper v Attorney General<ref>[2011] 2 W.L.R. 448</ref>
- Relfo Ltd v Varsani<ref>[2014] EWCA Civ 360</ref> - English unjust enrichment law concerning to what extent enrichment of the defendant must be at the expense of the claimant.
Bibliography
- with George Eccles, Companies Act, 1980 (1982)
- with Geoffrey Newton Lane, Rotaprint PLC: Investigation under Section 432 (2) and Section 442 of the Companies Act 1985 (1991)
- The Common Law in the Age of Human Rights (2000)
- Human Rights and European Law: Building New Legal Order (2015)
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