Amanda Yip

Dame Amanda Louise Yip, DBE (née Kay; born 23 April 1969), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Yip, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.[1]

The Hon. Mrs Justice Yip
High Court Judge
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1969-04-23) 23 April 1969
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge

The daughter of Sir John Kay, a Lord Justice of Appeal, Yip was educated at the Merchant Taylors' Girls' School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she read law. She was called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1991 and practised at Exchange Chambers in Liverpool, specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence work.[2] She was appointed a Recorder in 2009, Queen's Counsel in 2011, and a deputy High Court judge in 2013.

Yip was appointed a Justice of the High Court in 2017, on the retirement of Mr Justice Wyn Williams, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.[3] She received the customary appointment of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire the same year.

She married David Yip in 1991; they have one son and two daughters.

References
  1. "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
  2. "High Court Judge Appointment (Queen's Bench Division): Amanda Yip QC". Exchange Chambers. 1 September 2017.
  3. "High Court Judge Appointment (Queen's Bench Division): Yip". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary.
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