Dame Amanda Louise Yip () is a British High Court judge. Born in Liverpool, she is the daughter of Sir John Kay, a

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. She was educated at

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and

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mo ...

, where she studied law and graduated with a

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degree in 1990. She was

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in 1991 and practised at Exchange Chambers in

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, specialising in personal injury and clinical negligence work. She was appointed a

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in 2009,

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in 2011, and a deputy High Court judge in 2013. Yip was appointed a justice of the High Court in 2017, on the retirement of Mr Justice Wyn Williams, and assigned to the

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. She received the customary appointment as a

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the same year. This appointment was published in

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on 1 December 2017.

Notable cases

Cases heard by Yip include: * R v Cashman (

Murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel On 22 August 2022, Olivia Pratt-Korbel, a nine-year-old girl, was shot by Thomas Cashman in Liverpool, England, and was pronounced dead the same day at the city's Alder Hey Children's Hospital. The attack took place at the doorstep of the Pratt- ...

) * R v Jenkinson and Ratcliffe (

Murder of Brianna Ghey On 11 February 2023, Brianna Ghey ( ), a 16-year-old British transgender girl, was murdered in a premeditated attack by Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe. After being lured into Culcheth Linear Park by Jenkinson, Ghey was fatally stabbed. ...

)

References

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