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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
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and
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. He was called to the Bar in 1980. He became an Assistant
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in 1994, a Deputy High Court Judge in 2001,
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of
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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 ''
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'' and by the
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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 ''
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''. 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
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Chris Huhne MP and his former wife,
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for
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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
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; 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
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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
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. He is married with three children.


Notable cases

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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