Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Lord Justice Dingemans | |
Office1: | Lord Justice of Appeal |
Term Start1: | 21 October 2019 |
Office2: | Justice of the High Court |
Term Start2: | 10 June 2013 |
Term End2: | 21 October 2019 |
Birth Date: | 1964 6, df=y |
Monarch1: | Elizabeth II Charles III |
Sir James Michael Dingemans (born 25 June 1964), styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Dingemans, is a judge of the Court of Appeal, having previously served as a High Court judge.
Dingemans was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1987. He practised from Chambers at 3 Hare Court. He became a Queen's Counsel and a Recorder in 2002[1] and was approved to sit as a deputy High Court judge from 2010.[2]
On 10 June 2013, he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood in 2014, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.
On 21 October 2019, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal as a Lord Justice of Appeal and has since 5 February 2020 been Vice-President of the King's Bench Division.[3]
He is the co-author, with Can Yeginsu, Tom Cross, and Hafsah Masood of a leading textbook The Protections for Religious Rights: Law and Practice, published by Oxford University Press.[4]