Lord Justice Green, Senior Presiding Judge

Lord Justice Green was called to the Bar in 1986. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 1998 and a Recorder in 2003. At the Bar he specialised in EU law, constitutional and public law, competition and economic regulatory law, and general civil and commercial law. He was Chair of the Bar Council in 2010. He was appointed Chair of the Advocacy Training Council in 2011.

He was appointed to the High Court in October 2013 (Queen’s Bench Division, now King’s Bench Division) and was made a Presiding Judge on the South Eastern Circuit in 2016. He was appointed Chair of the Law Commission in August 2018 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2018. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester. He holds both a Ph.d and a LL.D.

In January 2024 he was appointed as Deputy Senior Presiding Judge, and he became Senior Presiding Judge on 1 October 2024.