Timothy Holroyde

Sir Timothy Victor Holroyde, PC (born 18 August 1955), styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Holroyde, is an English Court of Appeal judge, formerly a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Queen's Bench Division. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in October 2017.[1][2] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2017. In August 2018 he was appointed Chairman of the Sentencing Council.[3]

The Right Honourable

Lord Justice Holroyde
Lord Justice of Appeal
Assumed office
October 2017
Personal details
Born (1955-08-18) 18 August 1955
Alma materWadham College, Oxford

Tim Holroyde was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1977. As a barrister, he practised from Exchange Chambers, Liverpool.[4] He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1996, and was appointed to the High Court in January 2009. From 2012 he was a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit.[5][6]

As a barrister, he appeared as counsel for the prosecution in the trial that followed the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster.[7]

In 2012 Lord Justice Holroyde presided over the seven-month trial of Asil Nadir on fraud charges.[8][9] Other cases presided over by him included the trial of Anjem Choudary in 2016 for terrorist-related offences, and the trial of Dale Cregan in 2013 for crimes including the murder of PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes.[3]

References
  1. "Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  2. "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
  3. "New Chairman for the Sentencing Council: appointment of Lord Justice Holroyde". Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  4. "Tim Holroyde QC Receives Knighthood". Exchange Chambers. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  5. "New Presiding Judges appointed". Judiciary of England & Wales. 2011-06-21.
  6. "The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Debretts.com. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
  7. "Court hears of cockling dangers". BBC. 2005-09-19.
  8. "Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years for Polly Peck thefts". BBC. 2012-08-23.
  9. "R -v- Asil Nadir: Sentencing Remarks of The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Judiciary of England & Wales. 2012-08-23.


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