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Lord Justice Phillips
Court of Appeal Judge
Assumed office
2020
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
High Court Judge
Queen's Bench Division
In office
2013–2020
Personal details
Born (1961-10-10) 10 October 1961 (age 63)
Alma materUniversity 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.

References

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