Sir Peregrine Charles Hugo Simon (born 20 June 1950), is a retired

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Education and career

He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar, Middle Temple in 1973. He was appointed as Queen's Counsel in 1991; as a Bencher in 1999 and Recorder in 1998. He was

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in 2002 on his appointment as a High Court judge. He was appointed to the

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in 2015 and upon this appointment he was sworn in as a member of

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. This gave him the Honorific Title " The Right Honourable" for Life. He retired on 21 June 2020.

Family

He is one of the three sons of

Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale Jocelyn Edward Salis Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, (15 January 19117 May 2006) was a Law Lord in the United Kingdom, having been, by turns, a barrister, a commissioned officer in the British Army, a barrister again, a Conservative Party ...

and his second wife, the former Fay Pearson.

Notable cases

* ''Barrow v Bankside Members Agency Ltd and another'' * ''National Boat Shows (NBS) v Earls Court'' *''

R v Incedal and Rarmoul-Bouhadjar R, or r, is the eighteenth Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabe ...

'' *'' FHR European Ventures LLP v Cedar Capital Partners LLC''

References

1950 births Living people Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge British barristers 21st-century English judges Knights Bachelor People educated at Westminster School, London Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Place of birth missing (living people) Sons of life peers Lords Justices of Appeal English King's Counsel {{UK-law-bio-stub