Timothy Fancourt

The Honourable Mr Justice Fancourt
Fancourt in 2019
Justice of the High Court
Incumbent
Assumed office 2017
Personal details
Born	(1964-08-30) 30 August 1964 (age 60)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Profession	Judge

Sir Timothy Miles Fancourt (born 30 August 1964), judicially styled as Mr Justice Fancourt, is a judge of the English High Court.[1]

Personal life and education

Fancourt was born on 30 August 1964 and attended Whitgift School in Croydon. He studied law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[2] He has returned to Caius to preside over College moot trial competitions.

Career

He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2003.[3]

In 1996 he was elected to the Bar Council of England and Wales. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2009 [4] sitting at Harrow Crown Court[5] until 2017.[2] In 2012 he was appointed chairman of the Chancery Bar Association.[2]

He was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2013 and as a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2017.[1] He received the customary knighthood in May 2019.[6] In 2021, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Fancourt is a co-editor of Muir Watt & Moss: Agricultural Holdings.[7]

References

1. "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
2. "Fancourt, Hon. Sir Timothy Miles, (born 30 Aug. 1964), a Judge of the High Court, Chancery Division, since 2018; President, Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), since 2019". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U44011. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
3. "Crown Office | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
4. "Crown Office | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
5. "Bar Welcome Speeches". CHBA.ORG. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
6. "CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD | Honours and Awards | The Gazette". www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
7. Timothy Fancourt, Caroline Shea, Catherine Taskis, Emily Windsor, Edward Peters, Jamie Sutherland (2018). Muir Watt & Moss: Agricultural Holdings (15th ed.). Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 9781847038555.