Richard Field (judge)

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Sir Richard Alan Field (born 17 April 1947) is a British judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

Academic career[edit]

Education: Ottershaw School, Univ of Bristol (LLB), LSE (LLM).[1]

Field was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law from 1969 until becoming a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 1971. He served as an associate professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal from 1973 to 1977.

Legal career[edit]

Field was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1977 and later made a bencher. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1987. Field was appointed a Recorder in 1999.[2] On 11 January 2002, he was appointed a High Court judge,[3] receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. He served as presiding judge of the Western Circuit from 2009 to 2012. He retired on 31 August 2014.[4] He has since sat on a number of occasions as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Commercial Court.[5]

Field was Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong between 2014 and 2015.[6]

Field currently acts as an arbitrator. He also sits part-time as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong[7][8][9] (where he is given a Chinese name "范堯輝" by the Hong Kong Judiciary), a Justice of Appeal of the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and a Justice of the DIFC Courts.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Sir Richard Field Authorised Biography | Debrett's People of Today". www.debretts.com. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014.
  2. ^ "The Hon Mr Justice Field". Debrett's People of Today. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  3. ^ "No. 56455". The London Gazette. 16 January 2001. p. 541.
  4. ^ "Senior Judiciary".
  5. ^ Deciding a number of cases, including Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd v. Sinclair [2017] EWHC 2424 (Comm) (3 October 2017) and P v. Q [2018] EWHC 1399 (Comm) (11 June 2018)
  6. ^ a b "The Hon Sir Richard Field | One Essex Court | OEC".
  7. ^ "G.N. 143" Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 2, Vol. 24, 10 January 2020)
  8. ^ "G.N. 6" Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 1, Vol. 22, 5 January 2018)
  9. ^ "G.N. 5288" Hong Kong Government Gazette (No. 38, Vol. 20, 23 September 2016)