Academic career Lloyd Jones was a
Fellow of
Downing College, Cambridge from 1975 to 1991. From 1999 to 2005, he was a visiting professor at
City University, London. He has written articles that have been published in a number of
academic journals specialising in law. and was assigned to the
Queen's Bench Division. He served as presiding judge on the Wales and Chester Circuit and chairman of the
Lord Chancellor's Standing Committee on the Welsh Language from 2008 to 2011. and was appointed to the
Privy Council on 7 November 2012. On 2 October 2017 Lloyd Jones was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, where he chose the
judicial courtesy title of
Lord Lloyd-Jones. He retired on 13 January 2022 upon attaining 70 years of age, the last justice so to retire before the retirement age was raised to 75. He then became a member of the supplementary panel. On 17 August 2022, after the mandatory retirement age changed to 75, it was announced that Lloyd-Jones had been reappointed to the Supreme Court. He was Treasurer of Middle Temple for 2023. ==Honours==