Andrew Gilbart
| The Hon. Mr Justice Gilbart | |
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| High Court Judge | |
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Assumed office 2014 | |
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| Born | 13 February 1950 |
| Alma mater | Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
Sir Andrew James Gilbart (born 13 February 1950), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Gilbart, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[1]
He was called to the bar by Middle Temple in 1972 and became a bencher there in 2000. He was made a QC in 1991, a circuit judge in 2004, a senior circuit judge and Honorary Recorder of Manchester in 2008, a deputy judge of the High Court from 2004 to 2013, and his appointment as a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) was made in 2013. Illness prevented him taking up his appointment until October 2014.
Although a Planning Law specialist at the Bar, and heavily involved in the long-running Manchester Runway litigation, Mr. Justice Gilbart was well-regarded by the Manchester Bar for his approach to criminal cases as the Recorder of Manchester. During his tenure in that office he presided over many high-profile criminal cases, from murder to the high-profile Manchester Riots, in respect of which he set local sentencing guidelines which were later overturned by the Court of Appeal.
He was made a Knight Bachelor on 10 November 2015[2]
References
- ↑ ‘GILBART, Hon. Sir Andrew James’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 61406. p. 22094. 10 November 2015.