Andrew Nicol (judge)
| The Hon. Mr Justice Nicol | |
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| High Court Judge | |
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Assumed office 2009 | |
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| Born | 9 May 1951 |
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Selwyn College, Cambridge Harvard Law School |
Sir Andrew George Lindsay Nicol (born 9 May 1951), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Nicol, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was educated at City of London Freemen's School, Selwyn College, Cambridge and Harvard Law School (LLM).[1]
He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1978 and became a bencher there in 2004. He was made a QC in 1995, deputy judge of the High Court from 2003 to 2009, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2009.
He co-wrote Media Law with Geoffrey Robertson.[2]
On 5 November 2013, he sentenced Mr. David Sellu, a consultant surgeon to 2.5 year imprisonment for Manslaughter, this was later quashed in the court of appeal; and it was reported that he "failed to tell the jury how only truly exceptional negligence could rank as manslaughter". [3]
Personal life
He is married to Camilla Palmer QC, and has two sons.
References
- ↑ ‘NICOL, Hon. Sir Andrew (George Lindsay)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ↑ Cohen, Nick. "Secret justice will lead to paranoia – and it's not very British". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ↑ (PDF) https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/r-v-sellu-sentencing-remarks.pdf. Missing or empty
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