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Nicholas Green (judge)

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Lord Justice Green
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Judge of the Court of Appeal
Assumed office
2018
MonarchElizabeth II
Charles III
High Court Judge
Queen's Bench Division
In office
2013–2018
Personal details
Born
Nicholas Nigel Green

(1958-10-15) 15 October 1958 (age 63)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
University of Toronto
University of Southampton
OccupationCourt of Appeal judge
ProfessionJudge

Sir Nicholas Nigel Green (born 15 October 1958), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Green, is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[1][2]

He was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, the University of Leicester (LLB, 1980), the University of Toronto (LLM, 1981) and the University of Southampton (PhD, 1985).[3]

He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1986. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) in 2013, and was then awarded the customary knighthood in the 2014 Special Honours.[4] In 2018, he was promoted to the Court of Appeal and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in the same year.

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

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King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

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King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, also known as Camp Hill Boys, is a highly selective grammar school in Birmingham, United Kingdom. It is one of the most academically successful schools in the United Kingdom, currently ranked third among state schools. The name is retained from the previous location at Camp Hill in central Birmingham. The school moved to Vicarage Road in the suburb of Kings Heath in 1956, sharing a campus with its sister school, also formerly located in Camp Hill. It is a school which specialises in Science, Mathematics, and Applied Learning. In 2006, the school was assessed by The Sunday Times as state school of the year. A Year 9 student was 2011 winner of The Guardian Children's Fiction Page and the Gold Award in the British Physics Olympiad was won by a King Edward VI Camp Hill student in September 2011. Camp Hill has also sent a boy to the International Chemistry Olympiad for 4 years in a row. In the 2019 Chemistry Olympiad, Camp Hill received the second most gold certificates, coming second to St Paul's School, London.

University of Leicester

University of Leicester

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University of Toronto

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University of Southampton

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Inner Temple

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High Court of Justice

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Knight Bachelor

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2014 Special Honours

2014 Special Honours

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References
  1. ^ "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges 2018". www.judiciary.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. ^ ‘GREEN, Hon. Sir Nicholas Nigel’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  4. ^ "No. 60791". The London Gazette. 25 February 2014. p. 3889.


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