Sir Patrick Neville Garland (22 July 1929 – 6 August 2023) was a British barrister and judge. He was a judge of the High Court (

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) from 1985 to 2002. Educated at Uppingham School and

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, Garland was

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by the Middle Temple in 1953. In 1972, he was appointed a recorder and a Queen's Counsel. He was appointed a Justice of the High Court on 14 October 1985 and received the customary knighthood on 19 February 1986. He was appointed a Presiding Judge of the North Eastern Circuit in 1990. He retired on 14 October 2002. Garland was an honorary fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a member of the Free Speech Union's legal advisory council. Sir Patrick Garland died on 6 August 2023, at the age of 94.

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