Sir Anthony Hooper, PC (born 16 September 1937) is a British judge (retired), former professor of law, and a member of

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. He joined Matrix Chambers in 2013 after his retirement from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. In 2013 he was appointed inaugural Judicial Fellow of the Judicial Institute of University College, London, where he is an Honorary Professor. He is an Honorary Fellow at Trinity hall, Cambridge. Since 2018, he has been helping to fight corruption and to reform judicial system in

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. A former academic, Hooper was General Editor of Blackstone's Criminal Practice (2010–2014), a member and then Deputy Chair of the Criminal Procedure Rule Committee (2005–2012), President of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences (2001–2003) and Chairman of the Expert Witness Institute (2013–2017). Whilst at the Bar, he chaired the Bar Council's Race Relations Committee and was heavily involved in the production and implementation of the first Bar Equality Code.

Early life and career

Hooper was educated at

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and

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

. He was called to the Bar in 1965 (

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), elected a

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in 2003, and served as Chairman of the

Inns of Court School of Law The City Law School is one of the five schools of City, University of London. In 2001, the Inns of Court School of Law became part of City, and is now known as the City Law School. Until 1997, the ICSL had a monopoly on the provision of the Bar ...

. He was also admitted to the Bar in

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and was a professor at

Osgoode Hall Law School Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The law school is home to the Law Commission of Ontario, the Journal of Law and Social Policy, and the ''Osgoode Hall Law ...

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. He became a

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in 1987 and served as a Recorder from 1976 until his appointment to High Court on 14 February 1995. He received the customary

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and was assigned to the

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and served as Presiding Judge on the South East Circuit from 1997 to 2000. On 24 March 2004, Hooper became a

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, and was appointed to the Privy Council on 4 May of that year. Hooper reached the mandatory retirement age on 16 September 2012. In 2018,

Ukrainian parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

adopted the law to establish the High Anti-Corruption Court focused on dealing with the corruption cases. In November 2018, Hooper was selected to serve as the member of the Public Council of International Experts which would help to select the judges to the new-formed court, and later he was elected the chairman of the council. In November 2021, Hooper was appointed a member of the Ethics Council designed to establish the compliance of the members of the

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with the criteria of professional ethics and integrity, and on 1 December of that year, he was elected the deputy chair of the council.

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1937 births English King's Counsel Living people Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Knights Bachelor Lords Justices of Appeal Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Academic staff of the Osgoode Hall Law School Members of the Inner Temple {{UK-law-bio-stub

Early life and career

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