Nigel Teare
The Hon. Mr Justice Teare | |
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| High Court Judge | |
| Assumed office 2006 | |
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| Born | 8 January 1952 |
| Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford |
Sir Nigel John Martin Teare (born 8 January 1952), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Teare, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was educated at King William's College and St Peter's College, Oxford.[1]
He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1974. He was made a QC in 1991, recorder from 1997–2006, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2006. In 2011 he was appointed the Admiralty Judge, in charge of the Admiralty Court
Fraud Case of Mukhtar Ablyazov
Justice Teare is the presiding judge since 2009 in the "extraordinary case" of fraud and embezzlement amounting to $6 billion by Mukhtar Ablyazov - the largest case of financial fraud in history.[2] Justice Teare has said in his judgement the missing funds are a result of a "dishonest scheme whereby Mr. Ablyazov sought to misappropriate monies which belonged to the bank."[3]
References
- ^ ‘TEARE, Hon. Sir Nigel (John Martin)’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ^ "[2010] EWHC 1779 (Comm)".
- ^ "English judge says fugitive oligarch defrauded Kazakh bank BTA". Reuters.
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