David Wood (judge)

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David Russell Wood (born 13 December 1948) is a retired British Circuit judge. [1]

He was educated at Sedbergh School, the University of East Anglia (BA, 1970). [2] He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1973 and was a Circuit judge from 1995 to 2014. He served as President of the Council of Circuit Judges in 2008.

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References

  1. "David Russell WOOD". Debrett's People of Today. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. ‘WOOD, David Russell’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2013