Sir Andrew John Popplewell PC, styled The Rt Hon Lord Justice Popplewell, is a Lord Justice of Appeal (a judge of the Court of Appeal in

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), having previously served as a High Court judge. Son of Sir Oliver Popplewell, he was educated at

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and Downing College, Cambridge. He has three children:

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, actress star of the ''

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'' series,

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, who played Daisy in ''

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'', and Freddie Popplewell, a barrister. He was called to the bar at

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in 1981. He was made a QC in 1997 and was a

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from 2002 to 2011. He was appointed a judge of the

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(Queen's Bench Division) and knighted in 2011. On 21 October 2019, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal as a Lord Justice of Appeal.

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