Sir Timothy Victor Holroyde,PC (born 18 August 1955),styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Holroyde,is an English Court of Appeal judge,formerly a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales,Queen's Bench Division. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2017.[1][2] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2017. In 2015,he was appointed a member of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales,and served as its Chairman between 2018 and 2022.[3] In June 2022,he was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division),succeeding Lord Justice Fulford.[4] He has also been a Bencher of the Middle Temple since March 2005.
Timothy Holroyde[3] was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Wadham College,Oxford,where he attained a Bachelors in Jurisprudence. He was called to the Bar in November 1977 (Middle Temple).[5] As a barrister,he practised from Exchange Chambers,Liverpool.[6] He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1996,and was appointed to the High Court in January 2009. From 2012 he was a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit.[7][8]
In 2012,Timothy Holroyde presided over the seven-month trial of Asil Nadir on fraud charges.[10][11] Other cases included the trial of Anjem Choudary in 2016 for terrorist-related offences,and that of Dale Cregan in 2013 for crimes including the murders of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes.[12] In 2021,he presided over the British Post Office scandal case in the Court of Appeal,in which the convictions of 39 sub-postmasters for theft,false accounting and/or fraud were quashed.[13][14]
In July 2024,Holroyde was awarded an honorary doctorate by Edge Hill University in recognition of his contributions to the legal profession and connection with the local community.[15]
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