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His Honour Anthony Thornton KC

Full Title: His Honour Anthony Thornton KC
Category: Ordinary Bencher
Bench Call Date: 20.7.1992
Call Date: 24.11.1970
Bio:

Education: Eton; Keble College, Oxford; BCL; MA

Admission: 7 August 1967; Call 24 November 1970; MT Committees: Executive 1992-2004, Education (Chair) 1992-1998; Chairman, Fulham Legal Advice Centre 1973-78; QC 1988; Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre 1975-78; Member, TecBar Committee 1983-94; Member, Bar Council 1988-94 (Treasurer 1990-92), Chairman, Professional Standards Committee 1992-93; Assistant Recorder 1988-92; Recorder 1992-94; Senior Circuit Judge 1994-; Judge of the Technology and Construction Court 1998-2008; Permanent section 9 judge in the Administrative Court and Queen’s Bench Division 2008-; Member, Parole Board 2002-09; First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) 2009-

Publications: Halsbury's Laws of England, Title on Building Contracts, 1972 (contrib); Construction Disputes: liability and the expert witness, 1989; Construction Law Journal, 1984-94 (ed)

Recreations: Football; Opera; Legal History; Conviviality

Clubs: South Ronaldsay Golf Club