Sir Robin St John Knowles

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born 7 April 1960), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Knowles, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was educated at

Sir Roger Manwood's School Sir Roger Manwood's School is a selective grammar school located in the medieval town of Sandwich, Kent, England. Founded in 1563, it is one of the oldest schools in Britain and the third oldest state grammar school in Kent. Originally an all-b ...

and read Law at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

.‘KNOWLES, Robin St John’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014 He was called to the bar at

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in 1982. He commenced practice at the Bar in 1984, and was appointed a QC in 1999. He was Chair of the Commercial Bar Association of England & Wales and of Advocate (the Bar Pro Bono Unit) and the National Pro Bono Centre. In 1998 he was appointed an Assistant Recorder, a

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in 2000, and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2007. He has been a judge of the

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(

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) since 1 October 2014. He became a judge of the Commercial Court in 2015, and is a designated Judge of the Financial List. Sir Robin was awarded the

in 2007 for services to pro bono legal services.

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