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Timothy Fancourt

British judge (born 1964) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Timothy Fancourt
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Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt (born 30 August 1964), judicially styled as Mr Justice Fancourt, is a judge of the English High Court.[1]

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Personal life and education

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.

Career

He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2003.[3]

In 1996 he was elected to the Bar Council of England and Wales. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 [4] sitting at Harrow Crown Court[5] until 2017.[2] In 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Chancery Bar Association.[2]

He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2013 and as a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2017.[1] He received the customary knighthood in May 2019.[6] In 2021, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Fancourt is a co-editor of Muir Watt & Moss: Agricultural Holdings.[7]

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