Sir Christopher John Butcher styled The Hon Mr Justice Butcher, is a British High Court Judge. [1]
Mr Justice Butcher | |
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 Butcher in 2022 | |
| High Court Judge King's Bench Division | |
| Assumed office 5 March 2018 | |
| Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 August 1962 Haslemere |
| Nationality | British |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College,Oxford |
Butcher was born on 14 August 1962 in Haslemere,Surrey. [2] He was educated at Charterhouse and Magdalen College,Oxford,where he read Modern History. He was elected a Prize Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford in 1983. [3]
Butcher married Fiona Gaskin in 1992,with whom he had two children. [4]
Butcher is Chairperson of the Oxford based charity,The Radcliffe Trust. [5]
He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1986 and joined the London based chambers '7 King's Walk', [6] specialising in shipping,banking,arbitration and Insurance. [7] [8] Butcher was appointed King's Counsel in 2001. [9]
He would go on to become a Bencher for Gray's Inn in 2005,a Recorder in 2009, [10] and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2013. He has been a Judge of the High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division) since 2018, [11] he received the customary knighthood in 2019 form the late Queen Elizabeth II. [12]
Alongside hearing High Court cases,Butcher is authorised to sit in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and Administrative court. [1]
He was awarded the Eldon Law Scholarship by the University of Oxford in 1987. [7]
He achieved Chambers and Partners' Insurance Silk of the Year in 2008 and 2014. [3]
Butcher was awarded a PhD by King's College London in 2019 for his thesis on Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd. [3]
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