The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Sedley (formerly Lord Justice Sedley)

Sir Stephen Sedley was called to the Bar in 1964, became a QC in 1983 and was appointed a High Court judge in 1992, serving in the Queen’s Bench Division. In 1999 he was appointed to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, retiring in 2011. He has sat as a judge ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights and on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford University and a Judicial Visitor at University College, London. Sir Stephen chaired the Judicial Studies Board’s working party on the Human Rights Act 1998 and since 1999 has been President of the British Institute of Human Rights.