Masters of the Bench

Full Title: The Honourable Mr Justice Richard Kimblin

Category: Ordinary Bencher

Bench Call Date: 27-10-2026

Call Date: 23-07-1998

Bio:

The Honourable Mr Justice Kimblin was called to the Bar in 1998 and practised planning, public, environmental and regulatory criminal law at No5 Chambers, and formerly at No3 Chambers. He served on the Attorney General’s ‘A’ Panel of Counsel in the Administrative and Planning Courts, with a focus on environmental law and major infrastructure. His planning practice comprised large residential, energy and minerals developments. He prosecuted and defended environmental and regulatory crime throughout England and Wales.

He took silk in 2016 and was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2024. In 2025 he was appointed as a High Court Judge, in the Kings Bench Division.

Prior to his call to the Bar, he had a scientific career and completed doctoral and post-doctoral research as a Royal Society Western European Fellow at the University of Paris-XI. He is from the north of England, where he attended a Roman Catholic comprehensive school.