Lord Justice Holroyde | |
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Lord Justice of Appeal | |
Assumed office October 2017 | |
Monarchs |
Elizabeth II Charles III |
High Court Judge Queen's Bench Division | |
In office 2009–2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Timothy Victor Holroyde 18 August 1955 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
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]
Tim Holroyde [3] 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. [5] 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. [6] [7]
As a barrister, he appeared as counsel for the prosecution in the trial that followed the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. [8]
In 2012 Holroyde presided over the seven-month trial of Asil Nadir on fraud charges. [9] [10] 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. [11] 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. [12] [13]
Lord Justice Holroyde | |
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![]() | |
Lord Justice of Appeal | |
Assumed office October 2017 | |
Monarchs |
Elizabeth II Charles III |
High Court Judge Queen's Bench Division | |
In office 2009–2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Timothy Victor Holroyde 18 August 1955 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
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]
Tim Holroyde [3] 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. [5] 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. [6] [7]
As a barrister, he appeared as counsel for the prosecution in the trial that followed the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. [8]
In 2012 Holroyde presided over the seven-month trial of Asil Nadir on fraud charges. [9] [10] 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. [11] 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. [12] [13]