He was awarded a CBE in the same year and now chairs high - profile inquiries and inquests, as well as acting as the Independent Reviewer of National Security for Northern Ireland, and
Judicial Panel Chairman of the British Horseracing Authority.
He is a past member of the Boston Bar Association Diversity Leadership Task Force, a past member of the US District Court Civil Justice Advisory Board, a past
Chairman of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Merit Selection
Panel and a past member of the Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court's Working Group on Practicing with Professionalism.