George Leggatt

Sir George Andrew Midsomer Leggatt (born 12 November 1957)^[1] is a Justice of the High Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and is as such entitled to the judicial title Mr Justice Leggatt. His father is the former Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Andrew Leggatt.

Education

Eton College

Leggatt was educated at Eton College and earned a First-Class Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy at King's College, Cambridge in 1979. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University (1979–80) and received a Diploma in Law with distinction from City Law School in 1981.^[2]

Legal career

Leggatt was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1983 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1997. He joined Brick Court Chambers in 1985, where he practised commercial law, including areas such as banking, insurance, sales, and product liability law.^[3] He became a Recorder (a part-time judge) in 2002 and was a deputy High Court judge.^[4] On 26 October 2012, he was appointed to the High Court,^[5] receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.

Cases

• Yam Seng Pte Ltd v International Trade Corporation Ltd [2013] EWHC 111, finding a duty of good faith in English contract law
• Serdar Mohammed v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB), finding the United Kingdom in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, (specifically Article 5). The UK lacks detention authority under international humanitarian law to capture and detain individuals for longer than 96 hours in the course of the non-international armed conflict in Afghanistan.]]

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