Background
She is the daughter of Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Street Marylebone and his wife, Mary Evelyn Martin, and is the sister of Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham.
She is the daughter of Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Street Marylebone and his wife, Mary Evelyn Martin, and is the sister of Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham.
Street Paul"s Girls" School.
Mrs Justice Hogg, is a British lawyer and judge. Educated at Street Paul"s Girls School, she was appointed a Queen"s Counsel in 1989. In 1995, she was named a judge of the High Court of Justice where she sits in the Family Division.
At the time of her appointment she was only the seventh female High Court judge.
In 1995 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of law (Doctor of Laws) by the University of Westminster, an institution founded by her great-grandfather Quintin Hogg. Hogg caused controversy in 1996 when she ruled that a pregnant woman could be held in hospital against her will and forced to have her baby by Caesarean section.
The ruling was later overturned at the Court of Appeal, which ruled that a pregnant woman could refuse medical help even if doing so risked her baby"s life. During a court hearing on 7 July 2008 Hogg made an extraordinary plea to Madeleine"s abductor to "show mercy and compassion" and reveal her whereabouts.