Sir Christopher John Butcher styled The Hon Mr Justice Butcher, is a British High Court Judge.

Personal life and education

Butcher was born on 14 August 1962 in

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. He was educated at Charterhouse and

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, where he read Modern History. He was elected a Prize Fellow of

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in 1983. Butcher married Fiona Gaskin in 1992, with whom he had two children. Butcher is Chairperson of the Oxford based charity, The Radcliffe Trust.

Career

He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1986 and joined the London based chambers '7 King's Walk', specialising in shipping, banking, arbitration and Insurance. Butcher was appointed

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in 2001. He would go on to become a Bencher for Gray's Inn in 2005, a

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in 2009, and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2013. He has been a Judge of the High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division) since 2018, he received the customary knighthood in 2019 form the late Queen Elizabeth II. Alongside hearing High Court cases, Butcher is authorised to sit in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and Administrative court.

Awards and Scholarships

He was awarded the Eldon Law Scholarship by the University of Oxford in 1987. He achieved Chambers and Partners' Insurance Silk of the Year in 2008 and 2014. Butcher was awarded a PhD by

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in 2019 for his thesis on

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Butcher, Christopher 1962 births Living people People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford 21st-century English judges 20th-century English lawyers