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Sir Adam Martin Johnson (born 4 October 1965) is a British High Court judge and a member of the
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. Johnson was born in
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, England and attended Beaver Hill Comprehensive. He attended
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and graduated with a BA in 1987. He was the first in his family to attend university. In 1990, Johnson was admitted as a
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and joined
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where he specialised in commercial litigation. He was an associate from 1990 to 1997, then he was made partner in 1997. He
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in 2017 and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2018. On 2 October 2020, Johnson was appointed a judge of the High Court, replacing Sir Henry Carr who had died, and he was assigned to the
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. He received the customary
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in the same year. In 1996, he married Jennifer and together they have a son and two daughters.


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