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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

New judges at European Court of Justice - Lars Bay Larsen and Eleanor Sharpston

Luxembourg, 19/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - The first two of the new batch of judges for the European Court of Justice (the full complement is expected to be on board by 6 October this year) have started work, namely Lars Bay Larsen and Eleanor Sharpston, replacing Claus Gulmann and Francis Jacobs who resigned mid-term last year after fifteen and seventeen years, respectively, at the Court of Justice.

Lars Bay Larsen was born in 1953. He has degrees in politics and law. In 1983, he started...

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