Clive Buckland Lewis
( Judge) | |
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| Born | 13 June 1960 |
| Alma mater | • Churchill College (Cambridge) • Dalhousie University |
Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales | |
Clive Buckland Lewis, styled Lord Justice Lewis, is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
Background
He attended Cwmtawe Community School, Churchill College (Cambridge) and Dalhousie University in Canada.
Career
Lewis was a lecturer at the University of East Anglia and at University of Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Selwyn College, before being called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1987. He was appointed a Recorder in 2003 and was approved to sit as a deputy High Court judge in 2013. In 2006, he became a Queen's Counsel. On 13 June 2013, he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary knighthood in the 2014 Special Honours, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He was a Presiding Judge, Wales from 2016-2019. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Boundary Commission for Wales.
He was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2020.[1]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:"We accept of course that it is Draconian: and deliberately so." | blog post | 8 July 2025 | Craig Murray | "Appeal Court judge Lady Carr congratulated all the lawyers effusively on being brief and helpful, and said the case 'upheld the best traditions of the bar'. What it upheld, of course, was a further step into authoritarianism. This was the next morning: an 83-year-old priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action." |