He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 16 November 2015. He retired on reaching the then applicable retirement age of 70 in June 2021.[2]
On 17 August 2022, it was announced that Richards had been appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.[3] Lord Richards was sworn in on 3 October 2022, when it was announced that he would take the judicial title Lord Richards of Camberwell.[4][5]
References
^‘RICHARDS, Hon. Sir David (Anthony Stewart)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014