Appointments

Mr B. B. Low, to be British High Commissioner to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.

Mr D. C. B. Beaumont, to be British High Commissioner to the Republic of Botswana.

Mr Patrick Leonard Howell QC, to be a Social Security Commissioner and Child Support Commissioner.

Mr Ian Howard Pearson, to be a Deputy Judge Advocate.

Mr Justice Rimer and Mr Francis Barlow, to be Benchers of Lincoln's Inn.

Mr David Wolfe Keene, Mr Andrew David Collins and Mr Colin Percy Farquharson Rimer, to be Justices of the High Court.

Mr Alan Berg, to be a Provincial Stipendiary Magistrate for the Greater Manchester Commission Area, based at Manchester Magistrates' Court.

Mr Peter Simms Ward and Mr Paul James Firth, to be a Provincial Stipendiary Magistrate for the Merseyside Commission Area, based at Liverpool Magistrates' Court.

Mr David John Hale, to be a circuit judge assigned to the Wales and Chester Circuit.

Professor David Stephen Pearl, to be a circuit judge assigned to the South Eastern Circuit.

Mr David Anthony Oldham, to be a joint district judge for the districts of Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham County Courts and joint district judge in the District Registry of the High Court at Sheffield, Barnsley and Doncaster.

Mr Andrew Richard Matthew Maw, to be a joint district judge for the districts of Lincoln, Boston, Leicester, Grantham, Loughborough, Melton Mowbray, Skegness, Sleaford and Spalding County Courts and joint district judge in the district registry of the High Court at Lincoln, Boston and Leicester.

Mr Martin John Cardinal, to be a joint district judge for the districts of Birmingham, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Lichfield, Stourbridge and Tamworth County Courts and joint district

judge in the district registry of

the High Court at Birmingham, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich and

Wolverhampton.