Lord Justice Phillips | |
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Lord Justice of Appeal | |
Assumed office 2020 | |
Monarchs | Elizabeth II Charles III |
Justice of the High Court | |
In office 2013–2020 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 10 October 1961 |
Alma mater | University College,Oxford |
Sir Stephen Edmund Phillips (born 10 October 1961),styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Stephen Phillips,is a judge of the Court of Appeal having previously served as a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was educated at The King's School,Chester,and University College,Oxford. [1]
He was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1984 and became a bencher there in 2006. He was made a QC in 2002,served as a deputy judge of the High Court from 2008 to 2013,and was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) in 2013,receiving the customary knighthood in the 2014 Special Honours. [2] He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 13 January 2020 and sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.