Masters of the Bench

Aidan Christie was called in 1988 and took Silk in 2008.  He practises at 4 Pump Court in commercial law, specialising in insurance/reinsurance, professional negligence and financial services. 

He sits as a Recorder in crime and civil.  He is a Deemster in the Isle of Man High Court and an occasional Judge in the Court of Appeal in the Isle of Man.  He also sits as an arbitrator.

Since 2015 he has been a barrister member of the Board of the Bar Standards Board and Chair of the Professional Conduct Committee, having previously served on that Committee since 2011.

He is a Middle Temple advocacy trainer, a scholarship interviewer, a member of the Scholarship Finance Review Panel and a regular attendee at Inn functions, which he sees as essential to reinforce Middle Temple’s collegiality.

His main hobbies are reading, mostly contemporary novels often in translation.  He also enjoys hill walking in the West Highlands, Lake District and Switzerland and listening to choral music.