Vivien Rose, Lady Rose of Colmworth


Vivien Judith Rose, Lady Rose of Colmworth, is a British judge currently serving as a justice of the [Supreme Court of the United Kingdom].

Education

Rose was born in London to a Jewish family, daughter of Eric Rose and Jacqueline Sugarman. She took her first degree at Newnham College, Cambridge and a post-graduate degree at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Career

Rose was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1984. In 1992, she was appointed standing counsel to the Director General of Fair Trading. In 2005, she was made a Legal Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. She was approved to sit as a deputy High Court judge.
On 13 May 2013, she was appointed a High Court judge, assigned to the Chancery Division, and received the customary appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was President of the Tax and Chancery Chamber of the Upper Tribunal.
In 2019, she was appointed to the Court of Appeal, receiving the customary appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
On 4 March 2021, it was announced that she would replace Lady Black of Derwent as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The Queen made the appointment on the advice of the Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, following the recommendations of an independent selection commission. She assumed her new office on 19 April 2021, taking the judicial courtesy title of Lady Rose of Colmworth.

Personal life

In 2002 she married Dr Bernard Joseph Bulkin, OBE.

Notable decisions

Notable judicial decisions of Lady Rose include:
  • in relation to breach of the Quincecare duty.
  • NCL Investments Ltd v HMRC UKSC 9 in relation to the accounting treatment of employee share options scheme under tax law

    Links

  • ; accessed 22 March 2014.
  • ; accessed 22 March 2014.
  • ; accessed 16 April 2024.
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century English judges
Category:Chancery Division judges
Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Lady justices of appeal
Category:Members of the [Privy Council of the United Kingdom]
Category:Members of Gray's Inn
Category:21st-century British women lawyers
Category:21st-century British women judges
Category:Year of birth missing
Category:Lawyers awarded damehoods