Sir Stephen John Arthur Eyre (born 17 October 1957), styled Mr Justice Eyre, is a British High Court judge.

Personal life

Eyre was born in

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on the 17th of October 1957 and attended

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in the West Midlands. He later began his studies in 1976 at

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, taking a

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in 1979 and

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in 1980. He would later taking a

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in 2010 at

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. Eyre married Margaret Goodman in 1989.

Legal career

He was called to the

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in 1981 by

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, making him the first lawyer in his family. He then became a member of 1 Fountain Court Chambers in Birmingham until 2002 when the chambers merged with St Philips Chambers, Birmingham. Eyre was appointed as a

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in 2005 and in 2007, appointed as a Fee-Paid Judge for the

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of Health, Education and Social Care. From 2009 to 2020 Stephen Eyre was Chancellor, Vicar-General and Official Principal of the Diocese of Coventry (a Judge of the Consistory Court and principal legal adviser to the Lord Bishop) being replaced in that position by The Worshipful Glyn Samuel. He was also Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield for ten years until September 2022, being replaced in that position by The Worshipful Dr Anthony Verduyn. Eyre was appointed

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in 2015. He would later be appointed as a Circuit judge in 2015 and assigned to the

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and

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Circuit. In 2017 he was appointed to the Business and Property Courts in Manchester and Liverpool, as a Specialist Civil Circuit Judge. In 2021, Eyre was appointed as a High Court Judge and assigned to the

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. He received the customary knighthood in March 2022 at

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References

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