Michael Keehan

Sir Michael Joseph Keehan (born 31 March 1960), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Keehan, is a British judge of the High Court of Justice of the Courts of England and Wales.

Career

Keehan was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1982. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2000. He was appointed a Recorder in 2000 and was approved to sit as a deputy High Court judge.[1] On 13 May 2013, he was appointed a High Court judge,[2] assigned to the Family Division, receiving the customary knighthood in the 2013 Special Honours.[3]

gollark: Large areas of the world's behaviour becoming inaccessible to anyone but large bureaucratic organisations filling out horrific quantities of paperwork seems somewhat sad to me.
gollark: I mean, I don't do those things, but still.
gollark: I don't really like the increasing regulation of things and difficulty of doing possibly-dangerous things as a hobbyist.
gollark: As I said, we live in a society.
gollark: They would never *reduce* fees probably.

References
  1. "Appointment of a High Court Judge – Keehan" (Press release). Ministry of Justice. 19 April 2013. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013.
  2. "No. 60505". The London Gazette. 15 May 2013. p. 9621.
  3. List of Knights Bachelor, thegazette.co.uk; accessed 5 September 2015.



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