Malcolm Pill
Sir Malcolm Thomas Pill is the longest-serving Lord Justice of Appeal, and the most senior member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales who does not head a division of that court or of the High Court.[1]
Pill was born 11 March 1938 was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge [2]. He was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1962, and was a Recorder from 1976 to 1987. He became a queen's counsel in 1978, and was appointed a High Court Judge (Queen's Bench Division) and awarded a knighthood in 1988, and served until 1995. From 1989 to 1993, as Mr Justice Pill, he was Presiding Judge, Wales and Chester Circuit.
He became Lord Justice of Appeal in 1995, and was given the customary Privy Council appointment. Notable judgements have included the Stephen Downing case second appeal.
References
- ^ Info about - Court of Appeal Civil division - the court of appeal
- ^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576