Sir Peter John Cresswell,
DL (born 24 April 1944) is an English former
High Court judge,
[
] and currently a judge of the
Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaṭar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it sha ...
.
Cresswell was educated at
St John's School, Leatherhead before studying law at
Queens' College, Cambridge
Queens' College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, c ...
from 1962 to 1965, gaining an
MA and
LLB. He was then called to the bar at
Gray's Inn
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in 1966.
Cresswell was appointed
Queen's Counsel
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in 1983
before being appointed a High Court Judge in 1991 where he was assigned to the Queens' Bench Division.
From 1993-94 he was the judge in charge of the commercial court.
Between 1993 and 1996 Creswell presided over the Lloyds litigation, the largest piece of civil litigation in the UK.
Cresswell retired from the High Court in 2008
and since 2009 has been a judge of the Grand Court of the
Cayman Islands.
In November 2014 he was made a Companion o
The Academy of Experts
He is a
Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire and a Bencher of Gray's Inn.
References
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1944 births
Living people
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Deputy Lieutenants of Hampshire
Queen's Bench Division judges
Knights Bachelor
Members of Gray's Inn
People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead