Clare Faulds

Faulds qualified as an advocate of the Isle of Man Law Society in 1973. She was the first woman admitted to the Manx bar.[2][3] She has also worked as the Vicar General of Sodor and Man[4][5] from 1996[6] until 2014.[7] In a 2001 discussion, she said that exhuming bodies when people move house was not symptomatic of a decline in faith.[4] In 2004, Faulds left the Isle of Man to take up a senior magistrate role in the Falkland Islands. She took the role partly due to her interest in wildlife.[2][8] As a senior magistrate, Faulds dealt with around five criminal cases a week, as of 2006.[1] She later worked as acting Supreme Court judge, before moving back to the Isle of Man.[5]

In 2011, Faulds spoke at an event to explain the Manx political system prior to the Isle of Man general election.[9] In 2014, Faulds returned to the Falkland Islands to work as a senior magistrate and coroner, and also left her role as Vicar General of Sodor and Man.[10][7] In this role, she was also the senior magistrate for the British Antarctic Territory, until she was succeeded by Martine Kushner in December 2016.[11] [12] In 2015, she was judge for a case involving allegations of misreported catches of fish.[13] In 2016, she was judge for a case of illegal animal waste disposal.[14] From 2018 to 2020, she worked as an interim Senior Magistrate.[15]

Faulds has also worked as Chairman of the Isle of Man Income Tax Commissioners,[5] and for Britannia International Limited, the Isle of Man subsidiary of Britannia Building Society.[16]

Faulds is married with three sons, one of whom is a doctor.[2] Her husband has worked as a senior editor of the Manx Hansard,[2] and as the canon precentor of Peel Cathedral on the Isle of Man.[17] Faulds has a master's degree in canon law from Cardiff University.[2] In 2010, Faulds gave a talk about wildlife in the Falklands Islands.[8] In 2012, she joined the Rotary Club of Douglas.[18]

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