Jeremy Cooke
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Sir Jeremy Lionel Cooke (born 28 April 1949), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Cooke, is a former judge in the Queen's Bench in the High Court starting from 2001 and was presiding judge for the South Eastern Circuit from 2007 to 2011, and judge in charge of the Commercial Court from 2012 to his retirement in 2016.
Career
Educated at Whitgift School in Croydon and St Edmund Hall, Oxford,[https://web.archive.org/web/20231031025107/http://www.sjberwin.com/Contents/Publications/pdf/100/140306070249.pdf] he became a solicitor in 1973 and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1976.
He became a QC in 1990, working at 7 King's Bench Walk, where he was noted as a leading "commercial silk" by The Lawyer, who said he specialised in "energy, insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence and shipping and maritime law." He became head of chambers in May 2000, replacing Stephen Tomlinson, who left and became a high court judge. Cooke himself became a judge in 2001, being replaced by Julian Flaux QC and Gavin Kealey QC as head of chambers.{{cite news|url=http://www.thelawyer.com/quality-silks-are-hard-to-find/78851.article|title=Quality silks are hard to find|date=20 May 1997|work=The Lawyer|accessdate=21 December 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://www.thelawyer.com/digests/87033.article|title=Digests|date=17 April 2000|work=The Lawyer|accessdate=21 December 2011}}{{cite news|url=http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1159665/flaux-kealey-head-kbw|title=Flaux & Kealey to head 7 kbw|date=27 September 2001|work=Legal Week|accessdate=21 December 2011}} He acted as an assistant recorder 1994-8 then as a recorder 1998–2001.
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Cooke was knighted in 2001, and that October he became a High Court judge, Queen's Bench Division, Commercial. With Mr Justice Bean, he became a presiding judge over the South Eastern Circuit on 1 January 2007.{{cite news|url=http://www.thelawyer.com/leveson-j-lands-lord-justice-of-appeal-post/121091.article|title=Leveson J lands Lord Justice of Appeal post|date=24 July 2006|work=The Lawyer|accessdate=21 December 2011}} He was succeeded by Mr Justice Sweeney on 1 January 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.thelawyer.com/on-the-move/1008453.article|title=On the move|date=4 July 2011|work=The Lawyer|accessdate=21 December 2011}} Among the cases he has presided over as judge were the 2007 royal blackmail plot,{{cite news|url=http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/547666|title=Judge limits access to royal blackmail tape|last=May|first=Laura|date=20 March 2008|work=Press & Journal|accessdate=21 December 2011}} the trial of Armel Gnango for the murder of Magda Pniewska,{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} the trial of Roshonara Choudhry for stabbing Stephen Timms MP{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J8KBV80.htm |title=Woman gets 15 years for UK lawmaker stabbing |date=3 November 2010 |agency=Associated Press |accessdate=21 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410032614/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9J8KBV80.htm |archivedate=10 April 2016 }} and the 2011 Pakistan cricket spot-fixing scandal.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/nov/02/judge-rejects-mohammad-amir-plea?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Judge questions Mohammad Amir's plea that spot-fixing role was one-off|last=Scott|first=Matt|date=2 November 2011|work=The Guardian|accessdate=21 December 2011}}
Between 2013 and 2016, he presided over the case of R v Tom Hayes, which saw him hand the largest ever sentence for white collar crime in the UK. His last case was about the seizure of Hayes's assets, in which he ordered the payment of £878,806. He then retired in 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityam.com/237383/libor-scandal-judge-orders-former-ubs-and-citigroup-trader-tom-hayes-to-pay-878806|title=Judge orders Tom Hayes to pay £878,806|last=Kirton|first=Hayley|website=cityam.com|access-date=23 March 2016}}
He has also served as a judge for Singapore's International Commercial Court and the Dubai International Financial Centre Court.{{Cite web |title=Judges |url=https://www.judiciary.gov.sg/singapore-international-commercial-court/about-the-sicc/judges |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=Default |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sir Jeremy Cooke |url=https://www.commercialcourt.london/jl-cooke |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=the commercial court of england & wales |language=en-GB}}
Personal life
He was a member of Harlequin F.C. from 1970 to 1975. He has been vice-chairman of LICC Ltd since 1999 and was vice-president of the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship from 2003–2010.
See also
References
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- {{cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/media-releases/2006/news-release-2106|title=Appointment of Senior Presiding Judge and new Presiding Judges (News release 21/06)|date=18 July 2006|work=Judicial Communications Office news release|publisher=Judicial Office|accessdate=21 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528101037/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/media/media-releases/2006/news-release-2106|archive-date=28 May 2012|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/c/14198/Jeremy%20Lionel%20Cooke+COOKE.aspx|title=The Hon Mr Justice Cooke|work=Debrett's|accessdate=21 December 2011}}
External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.lawcf.org/index.asp?page=Podcast+-+A+Christian+Perspective+on+Commercial+Legal+Practice |title=A Christian Perspective on Commercial Legal Practice |work=The Lawyers' Christian Fellowship |accessdate=21 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205093501/http://www.lawcf.org/index.asp?page=Podcast+-+A+Christian+Perspective+on+Commercial+Legal+Practice |archivedate= 5 February 2012 }}
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