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Sir Andrew Jeremy Coulter Edis
PC (born 9 June 1957), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Edis,
is a
Lord Justice of Appeal (
Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales), having previously served as a
High Court Judge.
Edis studied at
Liverpool College
Liverpool College is a school in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England. It was one of the thirteen founding members of the Headmasters' Conference (HMC).
History
Liverpool College was the first of many public schools founded in the Victorian ...
and
University College, Oxford
University College (in full The College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford, colloquially referred to as "Univ") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It has a claim to being the oldest college of the unive ...
. He was
called to the Bar in 1980. He became an Assistant
Recorder
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* ''The Recorder'' (Port Pirie), a news ...
in 1994, a Deputy
High Court Judge in 2001,
Bencher
A bencher or Master of the Bench is a senior member of an Inn of Court in England and Wales or the Inns of Court in Northern Ireland, or the Honorable Society of King's Inns in Ireland. Benchers hold office for life once elected. A bencher ca ...
of
Middle Temple
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn ...
in 2004 and Senior Treasury
Counsel in 2008.
Edis has been ranked by ''Chambers and Partners'' and ''The Legal 500''
as a top advocate in crime.
His work has included high-profile cases that have been featured in national newspapers such as ''
The Independent
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'' and by the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...
.
For example, he defended in the 2005
Lady in the Lake trial
The Lady in the Lake trial was a 2005 murder case in which Gordon Park (25 January 1944 – 25 January 2010) a retired teacher from Leece, near Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, was jailed for life for the 1976 murder of his first wife, Caro ...
.
He has also undertaken book reviewing for the ''
Times Higher Education Supplement
''Times Higher Education'' (''THE''), formerly ''The Times Higher Education Supplement'' (''The Thes''), is a British magazine reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education.
Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
''.
Edis was counsel for the ultimately successful prosecution in ''
R v Huhne
''Regina v Christopher Huhne and Vasiliki Pryce'' is the prosecution of the former British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne MP, and his former wife, Vicky Pryce, the former Head of the Government Economic Service, ...
'', the trial of former British
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change was a British government cabinet position from 2008 to 2016. The Department of Energy and Climate Change was created on 3 October 2008 when then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown ...
Chris Huhne MP and his former wife,
Vicky Pryce
Vasiliki "Vicky" Pryce (' Kourmouzi ( el, Βασιλική Κουρμούζη); born 15 July 1952) is a Greek-born British economist and a former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service.
She is currently the Chief Econom ...
for
perverting the course of justice
Perverting the course of justice is an offence committed when a person prevents justice from being served on themselves or on another party. In England and Wales it is a common law offence, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Stat ...
in relation to a 2003 speeding case. In May 2013, Edis was lead prosecutor in the trial of Jiervon Bartlett and Nayed Hoque, who were accused of the murder of Paula Castle after allegedly mugging her in
Greenford
Greenford () is a suburb in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, England, lying west from Charing Cross. It has a population of 46,787 inhabitants, or 62,126 with the inclusion of Perivale.
Greenford is served by Greenford Station (L ...
; they later pleaded guilty to manslaughter. In late 2013, Edis was the lead prosecutor in the ''
News of the World'' newspaper phone-hacking scandal trial,
R v Brooks, Coulson and six others
''R v Coulson, Brooks and others'' was a trial at the Old Bailey in London, England, arising from the News International phone hacking scandal.
At the start, Glenn Mulcaire, Neville Thurlbeck, James Weatherup and Greg Miskiw all pleaded guilty ...
.
Edis was appointed a
Justice of the High Court on 1 October 2014 and
knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...
ed.
He became a Lord Justice of Appeal on 27 January 2021.
In his spare time, Edis is an enthusiastic cricketer and was one of the founding members of the Liverpool Bar Cricket Club, once taking career best figures of 7–12 in their annual fixture against the Inn at
Whitewell
Whitewell is a village within the civil parish of Bowland Forest Low and Ribble Valley borough of Lancashire, England. It is in the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Historically, the village is part of the West Riding of Yo ...
.
He is married with three children.
Notable cases
*
Murder of Shafilea Ahmed
Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed (Punjabi and ur, ; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in a suspected honour killing at the age of 17, due to their belief that she had become too Westernised ...
*
Lady in the Lake trial
The Lady in the Lake trial was a 2005 murder case in which Gordon Park (25 January 1944 – 25 January 2010) a retired teacher from Leece, near Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, was jailed for life for the 1976 murder of his first wife, Caro ...
*
R v Huhne
''Regina v Christopher Huhne and Vasiliki Pryce'' is the prosecution of the former British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne MP, and his former wife, Vicky Pryce, the former Head of the Government Economic Service, ...
*
News International phone hacking scandal
The News International phone hacking scandal was a controversy involving the now-defunct ''News of the World'' and other British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police b ...
*
2015 Shoreham Airshow crash
On 22 August 2015, a former military aircraft crashed onto a main road during an aerial display at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport, England, killing 11 people and injuring 16 others. It was the deadliest air show accident in the Unit ...
*
Essex lorry deaths
On 23 October 2019, the bodies of 39 Vietnamese people — 31 men and 8 women — were found in the trailer of an articulated refrigerator lorry in Grays, Essex, United Kingdom. The trailer had been shipped from the port of Zeebrugge, Belgiu ...
*
Murder of Tia Sharp
The murder of Tia Sharp (30 June 2000 – 2 or 3 August 2012) was a high-profile case of child murder in the United Kingdom. The victim was a 12-year-old girl, Tia Sharp, who was reported missing from and later found dead in the home of her gr ...
*
Murder of Dorothy Woolmer
*
Killing of Andrew Harper
On 15 August 2019, 28-year-old English Constable#United Kingdom, police constable Andrew Harper was killed near Sulhamstead, Berkshire, England in the line of duty. Harper and a fellow officer were responding to a report of a burglary, after whi ...
References
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1957 births
Living people
People educated at Liverpool College
Alumni of University College, Oxford
Lords Justices of Appeal
Members of the Middle Temple
Queen's Bench Division judges
21st-century English judges
English King's Counsel
Lawyers from Liverpool
20th-century King's Counsel
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom