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Sir Edward James Holman (born 21 August 1947) is a retired British judge of the
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, assigned to the Family Division. He has been the Commodore of the
Royal Yacht Squadron The Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS) is a British yacht club. Its clubhouse is Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. Member yachts are given the suffix RYS to their names, and are permitted (with the appropriate warrant) to we ...
since 2021.


Legal career

Holman was
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(
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) in 1971 and was elected a bencher in 1995. He acted for the
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from 1980 to 1991 and legal assessor for the Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting (now the
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) from 1983 to 1995. Holman has served as an officer of the Family Law Bar Association, as secretary 1988–92 and chairman 1992–95. In 1991, he was appointed a
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and a
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Recorder in 1993. He was a member of the Family Proceedings Rules Committee from 1991 and of the Supreme Court (now the Senior Courts) Procedure Committee from 1992, leaving both committees in 1995. On 18 March 1995, he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary
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, and assigned to the
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. He was Family Division Liaison Judge for the Western Circuit from 1995 to 2002. He retired from the High Court on 27 June 2022.


Other work

Sir James Holman has been the Commodore of the
Royal Yacht Squadron The Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS) is a British yacht club. Its clubhouse is Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. Member yachts are given the suffix RYS to their names, and are permitted (with the appropriate warrant) to we ...
since 2021.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holman, James 1947 births Living people People educated at Dauntsey's School Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Family Division judges Knights Bachelor Members of the Middle Temple 20th-century King's Counsel