Sir Anthony Tristram Kenneth May PC (born 9 September 1940) is a British judge. He was educated at

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and

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms ...

. On 1 October 2008, he succeeded Sir Igor Judge as President of the Queen's Bench Division. He was called to the Bar (

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) in 1967, became a

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in 1979, and a Recorder in 1985. He was appointed to the

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in 1991, receiving the customary

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. In 1997, May was appointed to the Court of Appeal. May was Vice-President of the Queen's Bench Division from 2002 to 2008, when he was appointed President of the Queen's Bench Division, when the previous president, Sir Igor Judge, became

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. He was named to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1998. May retired from the Queen's Bench Division in July 2011, and was succeeded as its president by Sir Roger John Laugharne Thomas. In October 2012 Downing Street announced Sir Anthony May would become the Interception of Communications Commissioner beginning on 1 January 2013. Unfortunately in July 2014 Sir Anthony was involved in a serious accident. As a consequence, the former Interception of Communications Commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, was re-instated as Interim Commissioner by the Prime Minister. May resumed the commissioner duties on 1 January 2015, and resigned effective 31 July 2015, six months prior to the end of his three-year term. He was succeeded as commissioner by Sir

Stanley Burnton Sir Stanley Jeffrey Burnton (born 25 October 1942) is a British lawyer and former Lord Justice of Appeal. Early life Burnton was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School. He studied jurisprudence at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from the ...

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