Edwin Jowitt

{{short description|British former High Court judge (born 1929)}}

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Sir Edwin Frank Jowitt (born 1 October 1929)[https://web.archive.org/web/20120426035409/http://adrchambersinternational.com/cvjowitt.htm Sir Edwin Frank Jowitt], ADR Chambers International. is a British former High Court judge. Notable cases overseen by Jowitt include the trial of the murderers of Ross Parker.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2590539.stm|title=Three guilty of teenager's murder|publisher=BBC News|date=December 19, 2002}}

Jowitt was educated at Swanwick Hall School and London School of Economics, where he earned his LL.B. He was called to the bar as a member of Middle Temple in 1951. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1969 and was recorder of the Crown Court from 1972 to 1980. He was a circuit judge from 1980 to 1987 and Senior Circuit Judge and honorary Recorder of Birmingham from 1987 to 1988. He was a judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, from 1988 to 2000. He was knighted in 1988. He was presiding judge of the Midland & Oxford Circuit from 1996 to 1999, was Lent reader in 1997, and became a senior bencher in January 2000.[https://www.middletemple.org.uk/bencher-persons-view?cid=31794 Masters of the Bench: Sir Edwin Jowitt], Middle Temple.

Following the recommendation of Canadian judge Peter Cory that inquiries into murders in Northern Ireland be undertaken, Jowitt was appointed to chair the Robert Hamill Inquiry.[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/judges-to-head-ni-collusion-inquiries-named-1.995261 Judges to head NI collusion inquiries named], Irish Times (November 16, 2004).[http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/collusion/docs/hamill_120310_interim.pdf Interim Report by the Robert Hamill Inquiry to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland] (January 2010).[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4574001.stm Hamill murder inquiry adjourned], BBC News (May 24, 2005).

Jowitt is interested in fell walking. He married in 1959 and has five children.