Mr Justice Picken | |
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Justice of the High Court | |
Assumed office 8 June 2015 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Personal details | |
Born | United Kingdom | 23 April 1966
Alma mater | Magdalene College,Cambridge University College,Cardiff |
Sir Simon Picken (born 23 April 1966) [1] is a British High Court judge.
Picken was educated at Cardiff High School,then completed an LLB at University College,Cardiff in 1987 and a starred first-class LLM from Magdalene College,Cambridge in 1988. [1]
He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1989,then established a practice at the bar in the area of commercial law,practising from 7 King's Bench Walk chambers from 1991. [2] [3] He took silk in 2006,served as a recorder in 2005 to 2015,a Deputy High Court judge from 2010. From 2009 to 2015,he was the Commercial Law QC to the Welsh Government. [2] In addition to practice,he wrote Good Faith and Insurance Contracts which was taken into a fourth edition. [1]
He was appointed a High Court judge in 2015,and received the customary knighthood. He has been a judge of the Commercial Court since 2016,is on the Financial List and is lead judge for European relations. From 2018 to 2021,he was the Presiding Judge of Wales. [2] [1]
In April 2022,he presided over Microsoft's £270 million competition case in which Microsoft encouraged customers to return unused licences in turn for a discount on Microsoft products;a Derbyshire-based company who bought and sold unused these licences said this stifled competition and was a violation of competition law. [4] [5]
He married Sophie Victoria Seddon in 1992,with whom he has one son and three daughters. [1]
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