Mr Justice Swift | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Justice of the High Court | |
| Assumed office 1 October 2018 | |
| Monarch | Charles III |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 September 1964 Rochford,England |
| Alma mater | Emmanuel College,Cambridge New College,Oxford |
Sir Jonathan Mark Swift (born 11 September 1964) [1] is a British High Court judge.
Swift was born in Rochford,England and educated at Southend High School for Boys. He studied at New College,Oxford and completed a BA in 1987. He followed this with an LLM at Emmanuel College,Cambridge in 1988. [1]
He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1989 and practised from 11 King's Bench Walk. [2] He was First Treasury Counsel from 2007 to 2014 and took silk in 2010. He served as a recorder from 2010 to 2018 and was appointed deputy High Court judge in 2016. [1]
On 1 October 2018,Swift was appointed a High Court judge,and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. [3] He took the customary knighthood in the same year. Since 2020,he has been judge in charge of the Administrative Court. [4] [1]
On 10 June 2022,Swift ruled in favour of the UK Government that the deportation flights of unsuccessful asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda should be allowed to proceed,as there was material public interest in doing so. [5] He added in his ruling that the risk posed to refugees was "in the realms of speculation". [6]
On 8 June 2023,Swift ruled in favour of the UK Government,and rejected the appeal of political prisoner Julian Assange's legal team,which had filed two appeals before the court against then UK Home Secretary Priti Patel's decision to extradite Wikileaks founder being indicted by the United States under the Espionage Act. [7]
In 2008,he married barrister Helen Evans with whom he has a son and a daughter. [1]
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Julian Ronald Moti QC CSI was the Attorney General of the Solomon Islands. He was born in Fiji and educated in Australia.
Dinah Gwen Lison Rose KC is a British barrister. She has been President of Magdalen College,Oxford since 2020. A member of Blackstone Chambers,she was named Barrister of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2009. In 2016,she was appointed a Deputy Judge of the High Court.
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor,publisher,and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning,a United States Army intelligence analyst:footage of a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad,U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars,and U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange has won multiple awards for publishing and journalism.
The High Court of Justice in London,known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England,together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court,are the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Its name is abbreviated as EWHC for legal citation purposes.
Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority were the set of legal proceedings in the United Kingdom concerning the requested extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden for a "preliminary investigation" into accusations of sexual offences allegedly made in August 2010. Assange left Sweden for the UK in 27 September 2010 and a warrant for his arrest was issued in his absence the same day. He was suspected of rape of a lesser degree,unlawful coercion and multiple cases of sexual molestation. In June 2012,Assange breached bail and sought refuge at Ecuador's Embassy in London and was granted asylum.
Ramona Villagomez Manglona is the United States chief judge of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
Sarah Harrison is a British former WikiLeaks section editor. She worked with the WikiLeaks' legal defence and has been described as Julian Assange's closest adviser. Harrison accompanied National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden on a high-profile flight from Hong Kong to Moscow while he was sought by the United States government.
In 2012,while on bail,Julian Assange was granted political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London,where he sought to avoid extradition to Sweden,and what his supporters said was the possibility of subsequent extradition to the US. On 11 April 2019,Ecuador revoked his asylum,he was arrested for failing to appear in court,and carried out of the embassy by members of the London Metropolitan Police. Following his arrest,he was charged and convicted,on 1 May 2019,of violating the Bail Act,and sentenced to fifty weeks in prison. While in prison the US revealed a previously sealed 2018 US indictment in which Assange was charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion related to his involvement with Chelsea Manning and WikiLeaks.
Emma Louise Arbuthnot,Baroness Arbuthnot of Edrom,,known professionally as Mrs Justice Arbuthnot,serves as a High Court judge for England and Wales since 2021.
Michael David Kopelman is a British researcher of memory disorders,having contributed for more than 30 years to the development of cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuropsychiatry. Until his retirement in 2015,he was lead clinician at the Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders Clinic at St Thomas' National Health Service teaching hospital in Central London. Beginning in 1981,he also served as an expert witness in legal proceedings,including high-profile cases.
The UK and Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership was an immigration policy proposed by the governments of Boris Johnson,Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak whereby people whom the United Kingdom identified as illegal immigrants or asylum seekers would have been relocated to Rwanda for processing,asylum and resettlement. Those who were successful in claiming asylum would have remained in Rwanda,and they would not have been permitted to return to the United Kingdom. The UK would invest in a development fund for Rwanda and financially support migrant's relocation and accommodation costs to move to Rwanda.
Sir Julian Bernard Knowles is a British High Court judge.
Sir David Michael Waksman is a British High Court judge.
Sir Edward Brian Pepperall is a British High Court judge.
Sir John Patrick Cavanagh is a British High Court judge.
Dame Karen Margaret Steyn,DBE is a British High Court judge.
Sir Thomas Dominic Linden is a British High Court judge.
Kunstler v. Central Intelligence Agency is a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency,former CIA Director Mike Pompeo,Undercover Global S.L.,and David Morales Guillen filed by a group of American lawyers and journalists associated with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The lawsuit alleged that the CIA violated their constitutional rights by recording their conversations with Assange and copying their devices after suspicions were raised that Assange was working for the Russian intelligence services.
Sir Jeremy Charles Johnson,known in court as Mr Justice Johnson,is a British barrister and justice of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.
For brevity, the words "Mr/Mrs Justice" have been omitted from judges' titles. | ||
| Division heads |  | |
| Puisne judges |
| |