Sir Richard Alan Field (born 17 April 1947) is a British judge of the

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Academic career

Education: Ottershaw School, Univ of Bristol (LLB), LSE (LLM). Field was an assistant professor at the

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Faculty of Law from 1969 until becoming a lecturer at the

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in 1971. He served as an associate professor at the

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Faculty of Law in

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from 1973 to 1977.

Legal career

Field was

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in 1977 and later made a bencher. He became a

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in 1987. Field was appointed a Recorder in 1999. On 11 January 2002, he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary

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, and assigned to the

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. He served as presiding judge of the Western Circuit from 2009 to 2012. He retired on 31 August 2014. He has since sat on a number of occasions as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Commercial Court. Field was Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the

between 2014 and 2015. Field currently acts as an arbitrator. He also sits part-time as a Deputy Judge of the

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"G.N. 5288"

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(No. 38, Vol. 20, 23 September 2016) (where he is given a Chinese name "范堯輝" by the Hong Kong Judiciary), a Justice of Appeal of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and a Justice of the DIFC Courts.

References

1947 births Living people 21st-century English judges Queen's Bench Division judges Alumni of the London School of Economics Knights Bachelor Academic staff of McGill University Academic staff of the University of British Columbia British expatriate academics in Canada Alumni of the University of Bristol Members of the Middle Temple English King's Counsel {{UK-law-bio-stub