Lord Justice Goldring has been appointed senior presiding judge for England and Wales.

Currently deputy senior presiding judge, Lord Justice Goldring will take on his new role from 1 January 2010.

He will succeed Lord Justice Leveson, whose three-year term of office finishes at the end of this year.

The senior presiding judge oversees the work of the presiding judges in each circuit in England and Wales. He provides a point of liaison between the judiciary, the courts and government departments. He also has overall responsibility for the deployment of work in the courts, dealing with personnel issues below High Court level and liaising with magistrates.

Lord Justice Goldring was appointed a High Court judge in the Queens Bench Division in 1999 and served as presiding judge for the midland circuit from 2002-05. He was appointed commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission in 2006, leaving in 2008 to become a Lord Justice of Appeal. He also became deputy senior presiding judge in 2008.