George Leggatt, Lord Leggatt

George Andrew Midsomer Leggatt, Lord Leggatt PC (born 12 November 1957)[2] is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest court of law in the United Kingdom.

The Right Honourable

Lord Leggatt
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Assumed office
21 April 2020
MonarchElizabeth II
Lord Justice of Appeal
In office
21 July 2017 – 21 April 2020
Personal details
NationalityBritish
Alma materKing’s College, Cambridge
Harvard University
University of Chicago Law School [1]

Education

Leggatt's father is the former Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Andrew Leggatt. Leggatt was educated at Eton College and earned a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy at King's College, Cambridge in 1979. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University (1979–80) and received a Diploma in Law with distinction from City Law School in 1981.[3]

Leggatt was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1983 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1997. He joined Brick Court Chambers in 1985, where he practised commercial law, including areas such as banking, insurance, sales, and product liability law.[4] He became a recorder in 2002 and was a deputy High Court judge.[5] On 26 October 2012, he was appointed to the High Court,[6] receiving the customary knighthood in the 2013 Special Honours,[7] and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in February 2018.[8] In July 2019, it was announced Leggatt would become a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom after the retirement of Lord Carnwarth. He was sworn in on 21 April 2020, in a specially adapted ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lord Leggatt recited the judicial oath in the presence of Lord Reed, the President of the Supreme Court, whilst the other Justices watched remotely. [9] [10]

In 2016 Leggatt was elected a Fellow of Eton College.[11]

Cases
  • Yam Seng Pte Ltd v International Trade Corporation Ltd [2013] EWHC 111, finding a duty of good faith in English contract law
  • Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB), finding the United Kingdom in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, (specifically Article 5). The UK lacks detention authority under international humanitarian law to capture and detain individuals for longer than 96 hours in the course of the non-international armed conflict in Afghanistan.]]

Notes
  1. https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/biographies-of-the-7-newly-appointed-court-of-appeal-judges/
  2. "George Leggatt, QC". Debrett's People of Today. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  3. "George Leggatt QC's full CV". Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  4. "George Leggatt QC". Brick Court Chambers. Archived from the original on 11 September 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  5. "Appointment of a High Court Judge – Leggatt, QC" (Press release). Ministry of Justice. 19 October 2012. Archived from the original on 11 July 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  6. "No. 60315". The London Gazette. 31 October 2012. p. 20891.
  7. "No. 60439". The London Gazette. 5 March 2013. p. 4263.
  8. https://www.judiciary.uk/you-and-the-judiciary/going-to-court/court-of-appeal-home/coa-biogs/
  9. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointments-to-the-supreme-court-24-july-2019
  10. https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/swearing-in-of-lord-leggatt.html
  11. Eton College web-site, Governing Body (accessed on 11 June 2019)


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