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Sir William James Lynton Blair (born 31 March 1950) is a British retired judge. He was previously a
Queen's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel (post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister o ...
at London barristers' chambers 3 Verulam Buildings, specialising in domestic and international banking and finance law. He is the elder brother of Sir
Tony Blair Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
, the former British prime minister. Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at the
Centre for Commercial Law Studies , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...
, Queen Mary University of London, he served as a High Court Judge in England and Wales for nearly ten years, and was Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court from 2016. In 2017, Blair rejoined 3 Verulam Buildings as an Associate Member and international arbitrator, and is now a member of 3VB's EDMC
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of_the_Supreme_People’s_Court_of_the_People’s_Republic_of_China.


_Career

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of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China.


Career

Blair became a
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, Peking University Law School, East China University of Politics and Law and the University of Hong Kong. He has also been, since 1999, an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (1997), and an academic adviser to the Asian Institute of International Financial Law. From 2001 to 2008 he served, part-time, as a chairman of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal (Finsmat) and from 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the Commercial Bar Association (Combar). He is also chairman of the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association (2004-2021), and of the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Tribunal. Along with
Lord Woolf Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf, (born 2 May 1933) is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional R ...
, the former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, he served as the Co-Convener of the inaugural Qatar Law Forum of Global Leaders in Law, held in
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, from 29–31 May 2009. He retired as a High Court Judge on 1 December 2017 to take up a position as Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies,
Queen Mary University of London , mottoeng = With united powers , established = 1785 – The London Hospital Medical College1843 – St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College1882 – Westfield College1887 – East London College/Queen Mary College , type = Public researc ...
. Since 2018, as well as arbitration, he has also sat part-time as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong SAR"G.N. 8254"
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(No. 52, Vol. 23, 27 December 2019) (where he is given a Chinese name "貝理賢" by the Hong Kong Judiciary), and in Qatar International Court. At the China International Commercial Court, he has spoken on legal issues. He is a member of the Ethics Committee of Digital Catapult’s AI Machine Intelligence Garage.


Publications

* Co-editor
Research Handbook on Ethics in Banking and Finance
(Edward Elgar Publishing 2019) * Co-editor
Banks and Financial Crime
the International Law of Tainted Money, 2nd edn (Oxford University Press, 2017) * General editor of ''Bullen, Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings'', 18th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2015 * Co-consultant editor of ''Butterworths Banking Law Handbook'', 8th edition (December 2010) * Co-author of ''Banking and Financial Services Regulation'', 3rd edition, Butterworths, London, 2002 * Co-editor Encyclopaedia of Banking Law ( Butterworths, London, 1999) * Editor of ''Banks and Remedies'', LLP, London, 1999 * Editor of ''Banks, Liability and Risk'', 3rd edition, LLP, London, 2001


References


External links


UK Government's Judiciary List site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blair, William 1950 births Living people British people of Scottish descent Academics of Queen Mary University of London Academics of the London School of Economics Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British barristers English legal scholars 20th-century English judges British King's Counsel Knights Bachelor Members of Lincoln's Inn People educated at Fettes College People educated at the Chorister School, Durham 20th-century King's Counsel Queen's Bench Division judges 21st-century English judges