Mr Justice Bourne | |
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| High Court Judge King's Bench Division | |
| Assumed office 01 October 2020 | |
| Monarch | Charles III |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 July 1964 London,England |
| Alma mater | Trinity College,Cambridge |
Sir Charles Gregory Bourne (born 4 July 1964) [1] is a British High Court judge.
Bourne was born in London,England and educated at University College School in London. He studied English at Trinity College,Cambridge and graduated with a BA in 1986. He followed this up with a year of study at Universitéde Paris IV,graduating in 1987. He was a journalist following university,but changed to law and completed a diploma in law at the Polytechnic of Central London. [2]
He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1991,practising public and employment law;he practised from 11 King's Bench Walk from 2012 till 2020. [3] He was appointed a recorder in 2009,took silk in 2014,and was appointed a deputy High Court judge in 2016. [1] As a practitioner,he appeared before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,and appeared for the Government in the 2010 case HJ and HT v Home Secretary. [2]
In 2018,he was instructed to investigate claims by a University College London academic which alleged administrators pushed ahead with a £1 billion expansion of the institution without adequately consulting the constituent academics. Bourne was appointed by then Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton,who was ex officio visitor of the institution. [4]
On 1 October 2020,Bourne was appointed a judge of the High Court,replacing Sir Peregrine Simon who retired from the Court of Appeal,and he was assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. [5] [6] [7] He took the customary knighthood in the same year. [1]
In 1995,he married Catherine Chadwick and together they have a son and a daughter. [1]
