Timothy Holroyde

The Right Honourable
Lord Justice Holroyde
Lord Justice of Appeal
Assumed office
October 2017
Personal details
Born (1955-08-18) 18 August 1955
Alma mater Wadham College, Oxford

Sir Timothy Victor Holroyde (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 educated at Bristol Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1977. As a barrister, he practised from Exchange Chambers, Liverpool.[3] 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.[4][5]

He appeared as counsel for the prosecution in the trial that followed the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster.[6]

In 2012 Mr Justice Holroyde presided over the seven-month trial of Asil Nadir on fraud charges.[7][8] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2017.

References

  1. ↑ "Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Tim Holroyde QC Receives Knighthood". Exchange Chambers. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  4. ↑ "New Presiding Judges appointed". Judiciary of England & Wales. 2011-06-21.
  5. ↑ "The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Debretts.com. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  6. ↑ "Court hears of cockling dangers". BBC. 2005-09-19.
  7. ↑ "Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years for Polly Peck thefts". BBC. 2012-08-23.
  8. ↑ "R -v- Asil Nadir: Sentencing Remarks of The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Judiciary of England & Wales. 2012-08-23.



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