Janet Smith (judge)
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This article is about the judge. For the professor of moral theology, see Janet E. Smith.
Dame Janet Hilary Smith, DBE (born 29 November 1940), styled The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Smith, was the judge who prepared a report on the activities of the British serial killer Harold Shipman.
She was appointed a High Court Judge in 1992 (and received the customary appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire), and became the fourth woman to be promoted to the Court of Appeal in 2002, following Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (now Baroness Butler-Sloss) (1988), Dame Brenda Hale (now Baroness Hale of Richmond) (1999) and Dame Mary Arden (2000).
In January 2003, she was appointed Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University.
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