Sir Rupert Matthew Jackson, PC (born 7 March 1948) is a retired justice of the

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. Currently he serves as a Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court.

Career

Jackson was educated at

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and

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, of which he is an Honorary Fellow. As an undergraduate, he served as President of the

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. He was

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in 1972 (

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) and made a

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in 1995. He became a

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in 1987, practising from 4 New Square Chambers. Jackson was a Recorder from 1990 until 1998, and was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 1993. In 1999, he was appointed a Judge of the

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and assigned to the

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and was

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the same year. He later served as the judge in charge of the

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from 2004 to 2007. On 2 October 2008, Jackson was appointed a

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, and he received the customary appointment to the

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the same year. On 14 June 2017 he was made an Honorary Fellow of

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in recognition of his contribution and work for The Academy. Jackson was, with John L. Powell, an author of a leading textbook on the English law of professional liability, ''Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability'', published by Sweet & Maxwell. He lives in Surrey and is married to Claire, Lady Jackson, a prominent local solicitor, who is head of the Wills, Trusts and Estates department of Howell-Jones LLP. Following his retirement from the Court of Appeal, Sir Rupert Jackson was appointed a Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) Court in Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2018. The AIFC Court is an independent court and separable from the judicial system of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is presided by the Rt Hon. the Lord Woolf, one of the leading judicial figures in the UK.

Review of civil costs

With the support of the

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, the

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, Sir Anthony Clarke, asked Lord Justice Jackson to conduct a review of civil litigation

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. Aims include carrying out an independent review of the rules governing the costs of civil litigation and to provide recommendations in order to promote access to justice at proportionate cost. The

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commenced in January 2009 and the findings were presented in January 2010. Many of the resulting reforms were implemented as part of the

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(LASPO) in April 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Rupert 1948 births Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge People educated at Christ's Hospital 20th-century English judges Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge Knights Bachelor Living people Lords Justices of Appeal Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Queen's Bench Division judges 20th-century King's Counsel Presidents of the Cambridge Union 21st-century English judges