Laura Cox (judge)
Dame Laura Mary Cox , styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Cox, is a former English High Court judge of the Queen's Bench Division, serving from 2002 until her retirement in 2016. Before serving on the bench, she was a barrister who specialised in employment law, discrimination and human rights.
Affiliations
- Head of Cloisters Chambers, Temple
- Chairperson of the Bar Council Sex Discrimination Committee and Equal Opportunities Committee
- Bencher of the Inner Temple; member of the Independent Human Rights Organization Justice and *Lawyers of Liberty, co-founder
- Vice-President of the Institute of Employment Rights
- Panel of Experts advising the Cambridge University Independent Review of Discrimination Legislation, panel member
- Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary College, London University
- Council of the University of London, member
- President of the Association of Women Barristers
- United Kingdom Association of Women Judges, committee member