Nicholas Green (judge)

Sir Nicholas Nigel Green (born 15 October 1958), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Green, is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[1][2]

The Right Honourable
Lord Justice Green
Judge of the Court of Appeal
Assumed office
2018
MonarchsElizabeth II
Charles III
High Court Judge
Queen's Bench Division
In office
2013–2018
Personal details
Born
Nicholas Nigel Green

(1958-10-15) 15 October 1958
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
University of Toronto
University of Southampton
OccupationCourt of Appeal judge
ProfessionJudge

He was educated at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, the University of Leicester (LLB, 1980), the University of Toronto (LLM, 1981) and the University of Southampton (PhD, 1985).[3]

He was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1986. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) in 2013, and was then awarded the customary knighthood in the 2014 Special Honours.[4] In 2018, he was promoted to the Court of Appeal and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in the same year.

References
  1. "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. "Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges 2018". www.judiciary.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. ‘GREEN, Hon. Sir Nicholas Nigel’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  4. "No. 60791". The London Gazette. 25 February 2014. p. 3889.


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