Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Lord Justice Phillips | |
Office: | Lord Justice of Appeal |
Term Start: | 2020 |
Office2: | Justice of the High Court |
Term Start2: | 2013 |
Term End2: | 2020 |
Birth Date: | 10 October 1961 |
Alma Mater: | University College, Oxford |
Sir Stephen Edmund Phillips (born 10 October 1961), styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Phillips, is a judge of the Court of Appeal having previously served as a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was educated at The King's School, Chester, and University College, Oxford.[1]
He was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1984 and became a bencher there in 2006. He was made a QC in 2002, served as a deputy judge of the High Court from 2008 to 2013, and was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) in 2013, receiving the customary knighthood in the 2014 Special Honours. He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal on 13 January 2020 and sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.