Board of Patrons

	The Hon Mr Justice Edwin Cameron, BA LLB (Stel) MA BCL (Oxon) Mr Justice Cameron began his career as a barrister in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1983, practising human rights law. His work included the defence of ANC fighters accused of treason. He later drafted a Charter of Rights on AIDS and HIV, and founded the AIDS Consortium in South Africa. A Vinerian Scholar at Oxford, he took silk in 1994. Mr Justice Cameron was appointed Judge of the High Court of South Africa in 1995. He served on the South African Constitutional Court from 1999-2000, and is currently on the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa in Bloemfontein. Supreme Court of Appeal
	The Right Hon. The Lord Goff of Chieveley (Robert Lionel Archibald Goff), PC DCL FBA Lord Goff, High Steward of the University of Oxford, retired in 1998 as Senior Law Lord after more than a decade as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords. Prior to being created a Law Lord in 1986, Lord Goff studied at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. He served in the army and as a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, practised as a barrister and Queen's Counsel, and was appointed to the High Court in 1975 and to the Court of Appeal in 1982. Lord Goff, co-author of Goff & Jones, The Law of Restitution, is the acknowledged father of English restitution law. He is the Chairman of the Council of Management of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and was awarded the Grand Gross (First Class) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution to British awareness of German law. Lord Goff is considered by many to be largely responsible for the growing interest in the United Kingdom in comparative law in general.
	The Hon Mr Justice Kenneth Madison Hayne, BA/LLB (Hons) (U of Melb) BCL (Oxon) A Rhodes Scholar for Victoria, Australia, Justice Hayne pursued a career as a barrister until his appointment as a QC in Victoria in 1984. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1992, and then became a foundation Judge of the Court of Appeal of Victoria in 1995. Justice Hayne received his appointment to the High Court of Australia in 1997. At the bar he specialised in commercial, constitutional, and general civil matters. High Court of Australia
	The Hon Mrs Justice Sujata Vasant Manohar, BA (Bom) MA (Oxon) Barrister-at-law Justice Manohar is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. She is now a member of the National Human Rights Commission, India. Prior to joining the Supreme Court of India, Justice Manohar was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and thereafter of the Kerala High Court, being the first woman to hold these positions. She established the Maharashtra Family Courts, was the first Chairperson of the Board of Visitors of the Judicial Officers' Training Institute at Nagpur, and was the Vice President of the Maharashtra State Legal Aid and Advisory Board. She is an honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn and an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has received an Hon D Litt from SNDT University, Mumbai. She is currently Chairperson of the International Law Association Committee on Feminism and International Law. National Human Rights Commission, India Supreme Court of India
	The Hon Mr Justice Robert Ribeiro, PJ LLB LLM (LSE) Mr Justice Ribeiro is a Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, the highest appellate court in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Before beginning his judicial career, he lectured at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law. He then practised as a barrister at the Hong Kong Bar, having also been called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1978. He was appointed a QC in 1990 (a status converted to Senior Counsel in 1997). After spending a year as a judge of the Court of First Instance in 1999, he was appointed a Justice of Appeal in the Hong Kong Court of Appeal in 2000 and, in the same year, was further appointed to the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. He has sat as a member of the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission, the Bar Council and the Operations Review Committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption over a number of years. HKSAR Judiciary
	The Hon Mr Justice Robert J Sharpe JA, BA (UWO) LLB (Hons) (Toronto) D Phil (Oxon) Mr Justice Sharpe sits on the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada. Before his appointment, he sat on the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division), now the Superior Court of Justice from 1995. Before embarking on his judicial career, Mr Justice Sharpe taught at the University of Toronto for many years, and was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1990 until 1995. He spent two years as Executive Legal Officer, Supreme Court Canada, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Mr Justice Sharpe is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, including The Law of Habeas Corpus (2nd ed, 1989); The Last Day, the Last Hour: The Currie Libel Trial, (1988); Injunctions and Specific Performance, (3rd ed., 2000); The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (with Katherine Swinton) (1998). Court of Appeal for Ontario Cour d’appel de l’Ontario
	The Hon Chief Justice Anthony Smellie QC The Hon Chief Justice Anthony Smellie QC has been a Judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands since February 1993. In June 1998 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands. Included among his responsibilities is that of Central Authority for the Cayman Islands Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the United States of America. In August 1991 he was appointed as one of Her Majesty's Counsel. Earlier positions held by Chief Justice Smellie include Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions for Jamaica, Solicitor General, and Acting Attorney-General for the Cayman Islands. Chief Justice Smellie is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of the West Indies (Barbados) and of the Norman Manley Law School (Jamaica) where he obtained his postgraduate professional qualifications. He is also an alumnus of the International Development Law Institute, Rome. He is an honorary fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London. Chief Justice Smellie is one of the representatives of the Cayman Islands to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force which is the Regional division of the Financial Action Task Force of the Group of 7 Industrialised Nations. He is listed by the UNDCP as a Consultant on the subject of anti-moneylaundering law and policy.