PRESS RELEASE : Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for England appointed [February 2024]

The press release issued by the Ministry of Justice on 26 February 2024.

The Lord Chancellor has announced the appointment of The Honourable Mr Justice Swift as Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for England (BCE).

Mrr Justice Swift is appointed from 16 February 2024 to 15 February 2027.

Appointments and reappointments are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments, and have been made under Section 3(a) of Schedule 1 of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, and are in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.

The Boundary Commission for England is required by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 to review the parliamentary constituencies in England every 5 years.

The BCE is an advisory non-departmental public body sponsored by the Cabinet Office.

Biography

Mr Justice Swift grew up in Essex and was educated at Southend-on-Sea High School for Boys. He studied law at New College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1989; and called to the Northern Ireland Bar in 2008. He has been a High Court judge since 2018, and sits in the King’s Bench Division. Since March 2020 he has been Judge in Charge of the Administrative Court. Before his appointment to the bench he was a barrister in chambers at 11 King’s Bench Walk. Between 2007 and 2014 he was First Treasury Counsel.