Sir Richard Alan Field (born 17 April 1947) is a British judge of the
High Court of England and Wales.
Academic career
Education:
Ottershaw School
Ottershaw School was founded in 1948 as an English school for boys in Ottershaw Park, Ottershaw, approximately southwest of London between Chertsey and Woking, Surrey, south of England, on an estate that dated back to 1761, when the first house ...
, Univ of Bristol (LLB), LSE (LLM).
Field was an assistant professor at the
University of British Columbia Faculty of Law from 1969 until becoming a lecturer at the
University of Hong Kong in 1971. He served as an associate professor at the
McGill University Faculty of Law in
Montreal from 1973 to 1977.
Legal career
Field was
called to the bar
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at
Inner Temple in 1977 and later made a bencher. He became a
Queen's Counsel in 1987. Field was appointed a
Recorder
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in 1999. On 11 January 2002, he was appointed a
High Court judge, receiving the customary
knighthood, and assigned to the
Queen's Bench Division. He served as presiding judge of the Western Circuit from 2009 to 2012. He retired on 31 August 2014. He has since sat on a number of occasions as a Deputy High Court Judge in the
Commercial Court.
Field was Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Hong Kong between 2014 and 2015.
Field currently acts as an arbitrator. He also sits part-time as a Deputy Judge of the
High Court of Hong Kong"G.N. 5288"
Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 38, Vol. 20, 23 September 2016) (where he is given a Chinese name "范堯輝" by the Hong Kong Judiciary
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), a Justice of Appeal of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal Cayman may refer to
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* , a British frigate in service with the Royal Navy from 1944 to 194 ...
and a Justice of the DIFC Courts The DIFC Courts are an independent English language common law judiciary, based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) with jurisdiction governing civil and commercial disputes nationally, regionally and worldwide. The Courts began opera ...
.
References
1947 births
Living people
21st-century English judges
Queen's Bench Division judges
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Knights Bachelor
McGill University faculty
University of British Columbia faculty
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Members of the Middle Temple
English King's Counsel
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