Sir Ernest Ryder

Biography

Sir Ernest Ryder became Senior President of Tribunals in September 2015.

Sir Ernest was called to the Bar in 1981 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1997. He became a Recorder in 2000. He was appointed a High Court judge, and assigned to the Family Division in 2004. He was the judge in charge of the family modernisation review in 2012.

He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013.