Why was Sir William Gage appointed to lead the Inquiry?
The Right Honourable Sir William Gage is well qualified. He was called to the Bar in 1963 and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1982. He was made a High Court judge in 1993, assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division. In 2004 he became a member of the Court of Appeal, from which he retired in November 2008. On 21 July 2008 he was invited by the then Secretary of State for Defence, Des Browne, to be the Chairman of the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry.
