Sir Andrew William Baker (born 21 December 1965), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Andrew Baker, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He is currently Judge in Charge of the

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Biography

He was educated at

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, read mathematics at

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, and completed a postgraduate diploma in law at

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. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1988. He was made a judge of the

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(

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) in 2016 and invested a knight in the

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. He is correctly described as Mr Justice Andrew Baker, distinguishing him from other judges, including Jeremy Baker, with the same surname. In April 2021 he dismissed a billion-dollar lawsuit against British financier Sanjay Shah and several other people. The Danish Tax Agency raised the case in 2018. In May 2022 Andrew Baker was presented with an honorary degree in

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from

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for his ruling against The Danish Tax Agency.

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