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 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.
- ^ ‘PHILLIPS, Hon. Sir Stephen Edmund’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ^ "No. 60791". The London Gazette. 25 February 2014. p. 3889.