After Van Mildert College, Durham, he briefly lectured in law at Durham and Queen Mary College London before going to the Bar in Birmingham chambers in 1971. Silk 1990.
Judge 1997 until 2018 successively in the Family Division, the Queen’s Bench Division, the Court of Appeal (Vice President of the Criminal Division) and the Supreme Court.
Since retirement he has been a Judicial Commissioner for the Investigatory Powers Commission, a co-ordinator of the Royal Society’s Science and Law project and Chairman of a public inquiry.
He lives in Worcestershire, where he is an active charity trustee. He attempts to remain approximately sane via garden effort, bellringing and veteran rowing. He is married to a former biochemist; they have two grown-up children.
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