Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt, styled Mr Justice Fancourt, is a judge of the

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Personal life and education

Fancourt was born on the 30th of August 1964 and attended

Whitgift School ("He who perseveres, conquers") , established = , closed = , type = Independent school , religious_affiliation = Church of England , president = , head_label = Head Master , head = Christopher Ramsey , c ...

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. He studied law at

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...

. He married Emily Windsor in 2000, with whom he has a daughter.

Career

He was

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in 1987. He initially became a tenant of London chambers at 11 Kings Bench Walk, latterly Falcon Chambers. As a barrister he specialised in real property and landlord and tenant law. He was appointed

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in 2003. In 1996 he was elected to the Bar Council of England and Wales. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 sitting at Harrow Crown Court until 2017. In 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Chancery Bar Association. He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2013 and as a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2017. He received the customary

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in May 2019. Fancourt is a co-editor of ''Muir Watt & Moss: Agricultural Holdings''.

References

Living people Members of Lincoln's Inn 20th-century British lawyers 21st-century British lawyers English barristers English King's Counsel 20th-century King's Counsel Chancery Division judges Knights Bachelor Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1964 births {{UK-law-bio-stub