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
High Court Judge
In office
2009–2017
Personal details
Born (1955-08-18) 18 August 1955
Alma materWadham College, Oxford

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 21 February 2013.
  5. "New Presiding Judges appointed". Judiciary of England & Wales. 21 June 2011.
  6. "The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Debretts.com. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  7. "Court hears of cockling dangers". BBC. 19 September 2005.
  8. "Asil Nadir jailed for 10 years for Polly Peck thefts". BBC. 23 August 2012.
  9. "R -v- Asil Nadir: Sentencing Remarks of The Hon Mr Justice Holroyde". Judiciary of England & Wales. 23 August 2012.


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