Appointments

Mr RG Short, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria.

Baron Richard von Weizsacker, to be Honorary President of the International Council of Christians and Jews.

Sir Sigmund Sternberg, to be Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Christians and Jews.

Sir Patrick Sinclair Bt, to be a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

Mr John Rupert Anselm Fox, Professor David Bernard Casson, Miss Kate Esi Eshun and Mr George Warr, be full-time Immigration Adjudicators.

Mr Christopher Andrew Carstairs, to be a full-time Chairman of Industrial Tribunals, assigned to the London South Region.

Mr Justice Dyson, to be a member of the Main Board of the Judicial Studies Board and Chairman of the Ethnic Minorities Advisory Committee.

Mr Justice Kirkwood, to be a member of the Main Board of the Judicial Studies Board and Co-Chairman of the Civil and Family Committee.

Mr Donald Rankin Douglas Hamilton, to be a circuit judge to the Midland and Oxford Circuit.

Mr Ian William Crompton, Mr Peter Stuart Fish, and Mr Richard Christopher Holman, to be circuit judges on the Northern Circuit.

Miss Patricia Anne Sturdy, to be joint district judge for the district of the Kingston-upon-Thames and Staines County Courts.