Sir Timothy Julian Kerr (born 15 February 1958), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Kerr, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales. The son of Sir Michael Kerr, a German-born

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, Kerr was educated at

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and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1983, becoming a

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in 2015. He was appointed

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in 2001, and a Recorder from 2008. He sat as part time chairman of

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s from 2001 to 2006. He also sat on various sports tribunals. Kerr was appointed a Justice of the High Court (Queen's Bench Division) on 4 June 2015, on the retirement of Mr Justice Eder. He received the customary

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in November of that year.

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