Sir Stephen Martin Males (born 24 November 1955), styled The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Males is a British judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
Males attended The Skinners' School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a MA degree in law in 1977.[1]
Males was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1978 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1998. He was appointed a Recorder in 1999 and was a Deputy High Court Judge until his promotion to the High Court, assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, on 1 October 2012,[2] receiving the customary knighthood in the 2013 Special Honours.[3] He was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 2019, receiving the customary appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, allowing him the honorific title "The Right Honourable".[4]
References
- ^ "20 Essex St Contacts: Stephen Males QC". Legal500. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ "Appointment of a High Court Judge: Males" (Press release). Ministry of Justice. 5 September 2012. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ "No. 60439". The London Gazette. 5 March 2013. p. 4263.
- ^ "Biographies of the 7 newly appointed Court of Appeal Judges 2018". www.judiciary.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
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