A Lord (or Lady) Justice of Appeal is the second highest level of judge in the courts of England and Wales.
Despite the title, and unlike the former Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (who were judges of still higher rank), they are not peers.
The number of Lord Justices of Appeal was fixed at five by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1881, but has since been increased.
By convention judges of the Court of Appeal are sworn of the Privy Council, entitling them to the honorific "The Right Honourable".
In cases heard in the Civil Division, judges wear a one-piece, zip-up robe onto which are stitched vertical, gold, clerical bands and no wig.