Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt (born 30 August 1964), judicially styled as Mr Justice Fancourt, is a judge of the

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Personal life and education

Fancourt was born on 30 August 1964 and attended

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. He studied law at

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. He has returned to Caius to preside over College moot trial competitions.

Career

He was

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in 1987. He was appointed

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in 2003. In 1996 he was elected to the Bar Council of England and Wales. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 sitting at Harrow Crown Court until 2017. In 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Chancery Bar Association. He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2013 and as a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2017. He received the customary

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in May 2019. In 2021, he was appointed

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. Fancourt is a co-editor of ''Muir Watt & Moss: Agricultural Holdings''.

References

Living people Members of Lincoln's Inn 20th-century British lawyers 21st-century British lawyers English barristers English King's Counsel 20th-century King's Counsel Chancery Division judges Knights Bachelor Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1964 births {{UK-law-bio-stub