Colin Rimer Explained

Sir Colin Percy Farquharson Rimer (born 30 January 1944) is a former judge of the English Court of Appeal; he retired in 2014.

Education

He was educated at Dulwich College from 1954 to 1962^[1] and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Rimer was called to the bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1968 and made a Bencher in 1994. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1988. He was appointed a Justice of the High Court on 3 October 1994 and was assigned to the Chancery Division. On 1 October 2007, he became a Lord Justice of Appeal, on the retirement of Robin Auld.^[2] He retired on 7 October 2014.^[3]

Hunter v Moss [1994] 1 WLR 452 (overturned on reasoning)
Gencor ACP Ltd v Dalby [2000] 2 BCLC 734
Sinclair Investment Holdings SA v Versailles Trade Finance (No. 3) [2007] EWHC 915
Consistent Group Ltd v Kalwak [2008] EWCA Civ 430 (reversed by Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher [2011] UKSC 41)
Moore Stephens v Stone Rolls Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 644
Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 183 (overturned)
Re Sigma Finance Corporation [2008] EWCA Civ 1303
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Annabel’s (Berkeley Square) Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 361
O'Donnell v Shanahan [2009] EWCA Civ 751
Williams v British Airways plc [2009] EWCA Civ 281 (overturned)
Parkwood Leisure Ltd v Alemo-Herron [2010] EWCA Civ 24
Jones v Kernott [2010] EWCA Civ 578 (overturned)
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Banerjee [2011] 1 WLR 702
Petrodel Resources Ltd v Prest [2012] EWCA Civ 1395 (overturned)
Hounga v Allen [2014] UKSC 47 (overturned)
Home Office v Essop [2017] UKSC 27 (overturned)

Motto:

Ratione Et Humanitate ^[4]

Web site: Archived copy . 2007-07-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071216041930/http://www.dulwich.org.uk/client_files/doc_docs/Alleynian/ALLEYNIAN680.pdf . 16 December 2007 . dmy-all .
Colin Rimer appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal . 3 July 2007 . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20071104170014/number10.gov.uk/page12281 . 4 November 2007 . Number10.gov.uk . 21 October 2012.
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/court-of-appeal-retirement-of-lord-justice-rimer/ Court of Appeal: Retirement of Lord Justice Rimer
Web site: Lincoln's Inn Great Hall, Ed10 Rimer, C . 13 July 2009 . Baz Manning . 19 December 2020.