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The Hon Mr Justice Nicol

Full Title: The Hon Mr Justice Nicol
Category: Senior Benchers
Bench Call Date: 19.10.2004
Call Date: 27.7.1978
Bio:

Education: City of London Freemen’s School 1962-1969; Selwyn College, Cambridge; Harvard Law School; Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley; BA (Cantab); LLB (Cantab) LLM (Harvard); Harkness Fellow; Entrance Bursary; Baron de Lancey Exhibitioner

Admission: 25 January 1971; Call 27 July 1978; Special Assistant Director of Housing & Community Development, State of California 1975-76; Special Assistant, Allen Allen & Hensley, solicitors, Sydney Australia 1976-77; Law Lecturer, LSE 1977-87; Practicing Barrister: 1 Dr Johnson’s Buildings 1979-90, Doughty Street Chambers 1990-; QC 1995; Recorder 2000-; Deputy High Court Judge 2003-09; High Court Judge, QBD 2009-; Presiding Judge SE Circuit 2011-14

Publications: Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others, 1990 (co author); Robertson and Nicol on Media Law, 5th edition, 2008 (co author); Media Law & Human Rights, 2nd edition, 2009 (co author)

Recreations: Family; Sailing; Walking