Richard Field (judge)

Sir Richard Alan Field (born 17 April 1947) is a British judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

Academic career

Education: Ottershaw School, Univ of Bristol (LLB), LSE (LLM).[1]

Field was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law from 1969 until becoming a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 1971. He served as an associate professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal from 1973 to 1977.

Legal career

Field was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1977 and later made a bencher. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1987. Field was appointed a Recorder in 1999.[2] On 11 January 2002, he was appointed a High Court judge,[3] receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He served as presiding judge of the Western Circuit from 2009 to 2012.

References

  1. ↑ {{http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9837/Richard-Field-FIELD}}
  2. ↑ "The Hon Mr Justice Field". Debrett's People of Today. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 56455. p. 541. 16 January 2001.