On Wednesday 15 December 1999, at 6.00pm, Mr Nicholas Forwood was sworn in as a judge with effect from that date, during a formal hearing before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. Mr Nicholas Forwood was nominated by decision of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to serve as a judge at the Court of First Instance from until 31 August 2001.
Born 1948; graduated 1969 from Cambridge University (Mechanical Sciences and Law); called to the English Bar in 1970, thereafter practising in London (1971-1979) and also in Brussels (1979-1999); called to the Irish Bar in 1982; appointed Queen's Counsel in 1987, and Bencher of the Middle Temple 1998; representative of the Bar of England and Wales at the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the EU (CCBE) and Chairman of the CCBE's Permanent Delegation to the European Court of Justice; Treasurer of the European Maritime Law Organization (board member since 1991); and a Governing Board member of the World Trade Law Association.
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