Timothy Holroyde
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]
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References
- ^ "Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ^ "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
- ^ a b >"Sentencing Council members". Sentencing Council. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ "Announcement: Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)". Judiciary of England & Wales. 3 May 2022.
- ^ "Tim Holroyde QC Receives Knighthood". Exchange Chambers. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ "New Presiding Judges appointed". Judiciary of England & Wales. 21 June 2011.
- ^ "The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Debretts.com. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ "Court hears of cockling dangers". BBC. 19 September 2005.
- ^ "Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years for Polly Peck thefts". BBC. 23 August 2012.
- ^ "R -v- Asil Nadir: Sentencing Remarks of The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Judiciary of England & Wales. 23 August 2012.
- ^ "New Chairman for the Sentencing Council: appointment of Lord Justice Holroyde". Sentencing Council. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ^ Hamilton & Ors v Post Office Ltd [2021] EWCA Crim 577 (23 April 2021), Court of Appeal (England and Wales)
- ^ "Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared". BBC News. 23 April 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
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