Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Lord Justice Popplewell | |
Office: | Lord Justice of Appeal |
Term Start: | 21 October 2019 |
Office2: | High Court Judge, Queen's Bench Division |
Term Start2: | 3 October 2011 |
Term End2: | 21 October 2019 |
Alma Mater: | Downing College, Cambridge |
Occupation: | Lawyer, judge |
Children: | 3 |
Sir Andrew John Popplewell PC, styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Popplewell, is a Lord Justice of Appeal (a judge of the Court of Appeal in England and Wales), having previously served as a High Court judge.
Son of Sir Oliver Popplewell, he was educated at Radley College and Downing College, Cambridge. He has three children: Anna Popplewell, actress star of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Lulu Popplewell, who played Daisy in Love Actually, and Freddie Popplewell, a barrister.[1]
He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1981. He was made a QC in 1997 and was a recorder from 2002 to 2011. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) and knighted in 2011.
On 21 October 2019, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal as a Lord Justice of Appeal.