Served as President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court from 2012 to 2017. He had previously been appointed Master of the Rolls in 2009. In 2018, he started practising as an arbitrator and legal expert from One Essex Court. Since 2010, he has been a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and, since 2018, a judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. He was Treasurer of Lincoln’s Inn in 2017.