Resume, January 2018. Interested in new opportunities in 2018, whether judicial, international human rights, academic or return to practice. UK or abroad.

1. DISTRICT JUDGE PROFESSOR ANSELM ELDERGILL
Resume of main posts, experience, qualifications and honours
• Judge, Court of Protection
• Honorary Professor of Law, University College London (one of the world’s leading universities)
• Former Chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission’s Law & Ethics Committee and Chairman of
London NHS Ethics Committee
• President of two national law associations (Mental Health Lawyers Association and the Institute of
Mental Health Act Practitioners)
• Consultant, Eversheds (one of the largest law firms in the world, with 40 offices across the UK, Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Asia)
• Extensive publications and conferences record, at home and abroad, for publications such as The
Princeton University Law Journal, Johns Hopkins University, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and The
Guardian.
• Ranked 1 in the ‘Leaders in their Field’ section of Chambers & Partners Directory of the Legal Profession
‘Anselm Eldergill is considered “authoritative” and has been recommended again as a leading authority
on the Mental Health Act, particularly the detention, tribunal and criminal law provisions’
‘He is renowned for being “hugely clever” and “a highly respected academic and commentator” with “the
best theoretical approach.” A heavyweight practitioner who chairs and is involved in judicial inquiries
nationwide.'
‘“Academically brilliant,” whilst able to “link up law and practice,” he has chaired six NHS inquiries
concerning mental health patients who have committed serious crimes. In addition to this, his
“authoritative, thoughtful and reliable” textbook has … elicited praise for its “empathy for the plight of
those suffering from mental health disorders.'
• Legal Chairman of ten Government Inquiries following the commission of homicides and numerous
inquiries into suicides and serious incidents of institutional abuse.
• National Complaints Convenor, Mental Health Act Commission (in charge of investigating statutory
complaints of unlawful treatment, ill-treatment or neglect in respect of detained patients
• Her Majesty’s Assistant Coroner
• Tribunal Judge
• Honorary Legal Adviser to the African Regional Council for Mental Health
• Entry in three volumes of Who's Who in America (USA), the Dictionary of International Biography and
the Cambridge Blue Book of Outstanding Achievement
• Legal adviser to the Mental Health Commission in Dublin
• Legal Member of the Mental Health Commission for Northern Ireland
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2. • Alexander Maxwell Law Scholar and David Hallett Prize for Government
• 1400-page textbook on Mental Health Law (reprinted twice)
• Chief Assessor and member of the Law Society's Mental Health Panel
• First Visiting Professor of Mental Health Law in UK, Northumbria University
• Member of the Editorial Boards of Medicine Science & the Law and of the Journal of Mental Health Law
• Lectures at numerous national and international conferences
• Qualified as a solicitor in 1987 and in practice until appointed as a full-time judge in 2010.
• Personal and Biographical information
Full Name Anselm Charles Eldergill
Address 3 Powers Court, Twickenham TW1 2JJ
Date of Birth 21 March 1959
Nationality British
Family Wife and two sons
Mobile 0797 119 8742
Email medicolegal@email.com
• Education
1969 – 1977 Stamford School, Stamford, Lincolnshire (11+ grammar school)
1978 – 1981 London School of Economics & Political Science (B.Sc. in Government)
1981 – 1982 St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (research)
1983 – 1985 The College of Law, Chancery Lane, London EC4
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