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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. 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 16 "old colleges" of the university, and was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. Its buildings span the R ...
from 1962 to 1965, gaining an MA and LLB. He was then called to the bar at
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in 1966. Cresswell was appointed
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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
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. 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.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cresswell, Peter 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