The Golfer
Before his appointment to the Supreme Court in 2013, Lord Patrick Hodge, 63, was the Scottish judge responsible for matters relating to government finances. He was a government lawyer early in his career, working for energy and tax collection ministries.
Hodge is sensitive about public criticism. In a November speech, he warned that media coverage of the Brexit ruling was proof that judges and politicians were not doing enough to stop the media portraying a “caricature of the judiciary.”
“All judges have a duty to take care to preserve political and public support for the rule of law; senior judges in particular have a duty to explain,” he said.
During the Brexit trial: The Article 50 case “is about what is the correct legal mechanism by which it is done, and nothing else,” Hodge said.
Decision: Parliament must vote
What else? He is a member of Edinburgh’s Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society, the world’s fourth oldest golfing body, which celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2011.
The Family Man
Lord Nicholas Wilson, 71, spent 12 years in the family division of the High Court deliberating on the legal consequences of divorce, yet it was only the debate about the introduction of same sex marriage that caused him to "reflect on the institution of marriage in any depth," he said in a 2014 speech in Belfast. Wilson studied at Oxford before being called to the bar in 1967. He became justice of the Supreme Court in 2011.
He once criticized elements of the British press for being “impervious to evidence inconsistent with their pre-conceived agenda,” when covering family justice.