Mrs Justice Eady | |
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| Justice of the High Court | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2019 | |
| Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 May 1965 United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | St Hugh's College,Oxford |
Dame Jennifer Jane Eady,DBE (born 31 May 1965) [1] is a British High Court judge.
She was educated at Boston High School in Lincolnshire. She was studied politics,philosophy and economics at St Hugh's College,Oxford,completing a BA in 1986,and then completed a graduate diploma in law at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1988. [1]
Eady was called to the bar at Inner Temple and practised employment law after completing her pupillage at Old Square Chambers in 1990 and remained there until 2013. [2] She served as a recorder from 2003 to 2013,took silk in 2006,and was a senior circuit judge from 2013. She was chair of the Employment Tribunals and a part-time employment judge from 2001 until 2008,member of the Acas Council from 2008 to 2014,and a trustee of the Free Representation Unit from 2006 to 2014. [1]
On 1 October 2019,Eady was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. [3] She took the customary damehood in 2019. [1] From 2022,she has been President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal,replacing Sir Akhlaq Choudhury. [4]
She is married and has one son. [1]
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