Mr Justice Moor | |
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Justice of the High Court | |
Assumed office 2011 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 15 July 1959 |
Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford |
Sir Philip Drury Moor (born 15 July 1959), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Moor, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Born on 15 July 1959, Moor studied jurisprudence (law) at Pembroke College, Oxford from 1978 - 1981. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1982. [1]
Moor was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2001 and made a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales in 2011. He was assigned to the Family Division and knighted the same year.
In 2004, he was appointed Chairman of the Family Law Bar Association. He was made a Bencher of the Inner Temple in 2004 and has since been chair of its Scholarship Committee. As a High Court Judge, he has been Chair of the High Court Judge's Association and served as Family Division Liaison Judge, first for Wales and then for the South East of England.
As a judge, he participated in a number of high-profile trials, including:
As a judge, Moor, filed a pension-related lawsuit against the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, having been excluded from pension payments after the reform of the system in 2015. [9]
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