Sir Nicholas John Gorrod Blake (born 21 June 1949), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Blake, is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was educated at Cranleigh School and

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. He was called to the bar at

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in 1974 and became a bencher there in 2002. He was made a QC in 1994, specialising in immigration, asylum and free movement and human rights law. He was a founding member of Matrix Chambers and first chair of its management committee. He was appointed as a special advocate and as a Deputy High Court judge in 2002, and judge of the

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(Queen's Bench Division) since 2007. From 2004 to 2013 he was a Trustee of the

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. From 2010 to 2013 he was President of the newly established Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). He served as a British representative of the International Association of Judges. Blake retired from the bench on 3 October 2017.

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