| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Mr Justice Fancourt | |
| Office: | Justice of the High Court |
| Term Start: | 2017 |
| Birth Date: | 30 August 1964 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
| Profession: | Judge |
Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt (born 30 August 1964), judicially styled as Mr Justice Fancourt, is a judge of the English High Court.[1]
Fancourt was born on 30 August 1964 and attended Whitgift School in Croydon. He studied law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[2] He has returned to Caius to preside over College moot trial competitions.
He married Emily Windsor in 2000, with whom he has a daughter.[3]
He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987. He initially became a tenant of London chambers at 11 Kings Bench Walk, latterly Falcon Chambers. As a barrister he specialised in real property and landlord and tenant law.[4] [5] He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2003.[6]
In 1996 he was elected to the Bar Council of England and Wales. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 [7] sitting at Harrow Crown Court until 2017. In 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Chancery Bar Association.
He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2013 and as a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2017. He received the customary knighthood in May 2019.[8] In 2021, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
Fancourt is a co-editor of Muir Watt & Moss: Agricultural Holdings.[9]