Nicholas Patten Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	The Right Honourable
Sir Nicholas Patten
Office:	Lord Justice of Appeal
Term Start:	9 July 2009
Term End:	8 August 2020
Predecessor:	Lord Justice Collins
Birth Date:	7 August 1950

Sir Nicholas John Patten (born 7 August 1950)^[1] is a former member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

Education

Tulse Hill Comprehensive School for boys; Christ Church, Oxford.

Career

Patten was called to the bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1974 and made a Bencher in 1997. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1988. He was appointed a Deputy High Court judge in 1998. On 2 October 2000, he was appointed to the High Court of Justice, receiving the customary knighthood, and was assigned to the Chancery Division. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 2005 to 2008.^[2] On 8 June 2009, Patten became a Lord Justice of Appeal, and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council the same year. He retired on 8 August 2020, having reached the statutory retirement age for judges.^[3]

See also

• List of Lords Justices of Appeal

Notes and References

1. Web site: Senior Judiciary . judiciary.gov.uk . 1 July 2011 . 18 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120818090051/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/judges-magistrates-and-tribunal-judges/list-of-members-of-the-judiciary/senior-judiciary-list . dead .
2. Lord Justice of Appeal . 22 May 2009 . Number10.gov.uk . 29 October 2012 . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090706042222/http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19403 . 6 July 2009.
3. Web site: Court of Appeal: Retirement of Lord Justice Patten . 8 August 2020 . judiciary.uk . 10 August 2020.