Solicitor judge reappointed as senior judicial commissioner

The Honourable Mr Justice Adam Johnson has been reappointed as a senior judicial commissioner of the Judicial Appointments Commission.

The judge was admitted as a solicitor in 1990, and became a partner at Herbert Smith, as it then was (now Herbert Smith Freehills), in 1997. In 2006 he helped set up the firm’s in-house advocacy unit and took silk in 2017.

He was appointed as a deputy High Court judge in 2018, after more than three decades in practice as a solicitor. In 2020, he was appointed as a High Court judge, assigned to the Chancery Division.

Johnson’s JAC role as senior judicial commissioner was approved by the King on the recommendation of the lord chancellor.

Johnson was appointed to one of the six judicial commissioner posts at the JAC in 2022 for three years. His reappointment, which begins this month, is a year-long post. He is among four current judicial commissioners who have been admitted to the roll of solicitors.