Sir Michael Supperstone | |
Office: | Justice of the High Court |
Term Start: | 2010 |
Term End: | 31 March 2020 |
Birth Date: | 30 March 1950 |
Birthname: | Michael Alan Supperstone |
Alma Mater: | Lincoln College, Oxford |
Sir Michael Alan Supperstone (born 30 March 1950), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Supperstone, is a former judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford.[1]
He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1973 and became a bencher there in 1999.[2] He was made a QC in 1991, deputy judge of the High Court from 1998 to 2010, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2010. He received the customary knighthood on appointment.[3] From 2017 he was judge in charge of the Administrative Court. On 31 March 2020, he retired from the High Court.[4]
Supperstone was a member of the barristers' chambers 11 King's Bench Walk.[5] He presided over the long-running case involving The Consulting Association, which admitted blacklisting construction workers over union activities. The proceedings were brought by the blacklisted workers.[6] [7]