Nick Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers

The Right Honourable
The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
KG GBS PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers KG GBS PC
	Phillips in 2018
President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
	In office; 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2012
Nominated by	Jack Straw
Appointed by	Elizabeth II
Deputy	The Lord Hoffmann; The Lord Hope of Craighead
Preceded by	The Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Succeeded by	The Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
	In office; 3 October 2005 – 30 September 2008
Nominated by	Lord Falconer
Appointed by	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	The Lord Woolf
Succeeded by	The Lord Judge
Master of the Rolls
	In office; 6 June 2000 – 3 October 2005
Preceded by	The Lord Woolf
Succeeded by	The Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
	In office; 12 January 1999 – 6 June 2000
Preceded by	The Lord Lloyd of Berwick
Succeeded by	The Lord Scott of Foscote
Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong
	In office; 1 October 2012 – 30 September 2024
Appointed by	Leung Chun-ying
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ; 12 January 1999
Personal details
Born	21 January 1938
Spouse	Christylle Marie-Thérèse Rouffiac
Children	2, including Marie
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Chinese name
Chinese	范理申
Yale Romanization
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Faahn Léih Sān
Jyutping	Faan6 Lei5 San1

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Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers (born 21 January 1938) is a British former senior judge.

Phillips was the inaugural President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, holding office between October 2009 and October 2012. He was the last Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the first Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales to be head of the English judiciary when that function was transferred from the Lord Chancellor in April 2006. Before his chief justiceship, he was Master of the Rolls from 2000 to 2005. He sits as a crossbencher.