Stephen Males Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
Lord Justice Males
Office:Lord Justice of Appeal
Term Start:2019
Office2:Justice of the High Court
Term Start2:2012
Term End2:2019
Birth Date:24 November 1955
Birthname:Stephen Martin Males
Nationality:British
Education:The Skinners' School
Alma Mater:St John's College, Cambridge
Occupation:Court of Appeal judge
Profession:Judge

Sir Stephen Martin Males (born 24 November 1955), styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Males is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

Males attended The Skinners' School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a MA degree in law in 1977.[1]

Males was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1978 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1998. He was appointed a Recorder in 1999 and was a Deputy High Court Judge until his promotion to the High Court, assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, on 1 October 2012,[2] receiving the customary knighthood in the 2013 Special Honours. He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 2019, receiving the customary appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, allowing him the honorific title "The Right Honourable".[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 20 Essex St Contacts: Stephen Males QC . https://archive.today/20130127173606/http://www.legal500.com/firms/9333/offices/9333/lawyers/7570 . dead . 27 January 2013 . Legal500 . 20 October 2012 .
  2. Appointment of a High Court Judge: Males . 5 September 2012 . 10 October 2012 . Ministry of Justice . dead . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121012162143/http%3A//www.justice.gov.uk/news/judicial%2Dappointments/judicial%2D050912%2D101/ . 12 October 2012 . dmy-all .
  3. Web site: Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges 2018. www.judiciary.uk. en-GB. 2019-03-13.