or "judge who wrote the opinion of the court"
or "delivered/delivering the opinion of the court"
or "giving the opinion of the court"

("Judge Rapporteur" is the term used in the European Court of Justice and the European Court of First Instance", but is not common in the US or the UK)

The Lord Justice General, writing the opinion of the court, said:. "In view of the difficulties which have arisen with the English prison authorities since ...
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199495/ldhansrd/vo94112...

Writing for the Court, Justice John Paul Stevens said: "It is true that we have repeatedly recognized the governmental interest in protecting children from ...
www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/Edupage/1997/06/26-06-1997.html

Writing for the Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor found that the law school had a compelling interest in attaining a diverse student body and that, ...
www.cup.cam.ac.uk/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052175071...


Lord Reed, delivering the opinion of the court, said: "Where the summons has not called within the period specified by the rule, the automatic consequence ...
www.journalonline.co.uk/news/1001340.aspx

The Opinion of the Court was delivered by the Lord Justice General. In that Opinion, he recorded that in the course of the hearing of the petition a number ...
www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/MISC117.html

L Phillips MR (delivering the opinion of the court) acknowledged that the difficulties the current “multiple publication” rule posed for Internet publishers ...
www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/elaw/loutchansky.asp

The case of these jurymen was reviewed on a writ of Habeas Corpus and Chief Justice Vaughn delivered the opinion of the court which established the Right of ...
www.ccguide.org.uk/law.php

The Lord Justice Clerk (Lord Cullen), delivering the opinion of the court, said (at 365B):. "In our view the plain meaning of subsection (3)(a) is to ...
www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/2006HCJAC36.html

Giving the opinion of the court, Lord Justice Clerk Gill said: "On the information before us, we conclude that the Society is neither secret nor sinister ...
www.law.ed.ac.uk/sln/index.asp?page=218

Giving the opinion of the court, the Lord President said it was clear that the effect of the statutory provisions, when read together, is that the court ...
www.slab.org.uk/.../!SSL!/RoboInfo_Output/CHAPTER_19EXPENSE...





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In judgments in Spanish it is common to see a judge's name followed or proceeded by the reference that he was "magistrado ponente", i.e.,

"Siendo Ponente el Magistrado Ponente Ilmo. Sr. D. Agustin Gomez Moreno Mora"

"Ha sido Magistrado Ponente el Ilmo. Sr. D. Fernando Socías Fuster, quien expresa el parecer de la Sala."

The equivalent in the US Supreme Court is:

Five justices of the Supreme Court agreed. Writing for the court, Justice John Paul Stevens said that the Constitution gives the Congress, not the president ...
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5520809

Writing for the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy found the punishment was ... The Supreme Court cited "evolving standards" two years ago when it ruled ...
www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/01/scotus.death.penalty/index.html

The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the Court of Appeals, and remanded to the District Court. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion of the Court. ...
www.techlawjournal.com/topstories/2006/20060515.asp

The Supreme Court v. the Constitution of the United States of America ... But Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the opinion of the Court in Ashcroft v. ...
www.claremont.org/writings/precepts/20020423west.html

As many expected, the Supreme Court affirmed, finding the ballot provision ... Justice Stevens wrote the opinion of the Court, and was joined in full by ...
www.bakerbotts.com/infocenter/publications/Detail.aspx?id=2...